How to Use decrepit in a Sentence

decrepit

adjective

• My decrepit car barely starts.
• There are couches and rows of chairs aimed at it, along with piles of crimson cushions that can be wedged behind decrepit backs.
  — Chris Jones, Esquire, 25 Mar. 2013
• My parents live near the decrepit seaside town of Westward Ho!
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2008
• In an ideal world, electrification would enable the rich world to scrap its most decrepit gas cars.
  — David Zipper, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
• The ship is old and decrepit, and a hazard to its crew.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
• But fear of losing the race had many on edge, given the decrepit state of the 149-year-old track.
  — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• Hitting the low, sandy bottom, the decrepit boat broke apart about 100 yards from the shore.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Moving the bureau out of the decrepit J. Edgar Hoover Building had been in the works for years.
  — Zach Everson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• France is in the middle, though some of the prisons in France are pretty decrepit.
  — Maura Ewing, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2017
• An old man was living at the end of a dirt road in a decrepit trailer packed with dogs.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022
• The days of muddy and decrepit fields at McClatchy High School will be no more.
  — Jacob Sweet, sacbee.com, 17 June 2017
• The apartment house has risen on the site of a decrepit early parking garage.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2024
• The handle is the crook of an alder-tree branch, the blade a piece of the suspension of a decrepit Volkswagen bug.
  — Ron Judd, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• For Reagan’s state headquarters, the Trumps found Stone and the campaign a decrepit town house next to the ‘21’ Club.
  — Marie Brenner, The Hive, 4 July 2017
• The prison held too many inmates, and the conditions were too decrepit.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• There’s a huge decrepit mansion in a field in Illinois.
  — Chris Moody, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• Soon, a vast, decrepit oil tanker in the Red Sea will likely sink, catch fire, or explode.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• To the right lay decrepit and sometimes broken building-cubes, and that pale blue ocean.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• But Filoli was not a decrepit wreck when it was donated, and the beauty and charm of the house remains.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
• According to Olson, the state of the building when BBP bought it, was in decrepit shape.
  — Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
• In this case, this trend, which crops up every few years, seems to say that pristine shoes are on the outs and decrepit soles are in.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 May 2022
• The North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, is clearly aware of the threat the virus poses to his country​’s decrepit health system.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• To address its decrepit roads and bridges, the state came up with RhodeWorks, which became law in 2016.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• Features look decrepit, plants are overgrown, and parts of the road are missing.
  — Andrea Romano, Smithsonian, 23 Apr. 2018
• Lamb noticed that most ice cream trucks looked decrepit.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
• The second change is that firms have had to adapt to a decrepit tax code that is stuck in the 1980s, before business globalised.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• The two move in together to care for the baby, whose haunting wails fill the tiny and decrepit apartment.
  — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 29 Aug. 2023
• What happens when the nonexistent bumps against the decrepit?
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 1 Aug. 2017
• But the castle is away from the main fray, decrepit and really haunted.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
• In the film’s first shot, a monumental moon presides over a decrepit castle and a cobblestoned, cross-laden town.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024