Example sentences for: decrepit

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

  • Equally fascinating are the two parallel, partly residential streets — O’Reilly and Obrapía — where grand neoclassical and colonial buildings intermingle with decrepit tenements.

  • Additionally, in a city with "acres of abandoned and decrepit housing," local officials failed to spend millions in federal block grant money intended to rehabilitate housing for the poor.

  • 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.

  • Clint Eastwood, in his 21 st directorial effort, is a decrepit newspaper reporter rushing to save an innocent man on death row.


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