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Example sentences for: decrepit

How can you use “decrepit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Chernomyrdin was the co-chairman of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, a biannual meeting that addressed much and solved little, aside from keeping Russia's decrepit Mir space station in orbit.
Their tombs and stone markers range from the ostentatious to the elegant, the well preserved to the decrepit.
Equally fascinating are the two parallel, partly residential streets — O’Reilly and Obrapía — where grand neoclassical and colonial buildings intermingle with decrepit tenements.
El Mundo said the arrest has "strong symbolic weight" and that "treating the decrepit tyrant as a common criminal and forcing him to explain his actions in the face of international justice is a lesson not just for him but for all others of his ilk around the world."
He gives us dexterous word painting, like this description of a decrepit hospital in which "the ghosts of patients long departed recline on skeletal neststeads and the broken spirits of long gone junior doctors toe-tap mournfully over the linoleum."