Examples of decrepitude in a Sentence
The house has fallen into decrepitude.
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Any rescue from the muck rests with ordinary citizens taking city and state government back from the politicians serving special interests rather than their own; and shunting aside the go-along-to-get-along business and civic elites settling for decrepitude.
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Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024
Despite Orlok’s prosthetic decrepitude and the plague-like toxicity of his love, what truly horrifies Ellen about him is that some unknown part of her nature craves his touch.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
His advanced decrepitude will be matched only by the looming threat of irrelevance in a desensitized world.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.
—Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
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Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024
Despite Orlok’s prosthetic decrepitude and the plague-like toxicity of his love, what truly horrifies Ellen about him is that some unknown part of her nature craves his touch.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
His advanced decrepitude will be matched only by the looming threat of irrelevance in a desensitized world.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.
—Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
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“Decrepitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decrepitude. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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decrepitude
noun
de·crep·i·tude
di-ˈkrep-ə-ˌt(y)üd 
: the quality or state of being decrepit : loss of strength or sturdiness especially from old age
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