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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:

Clint Eastwood, in his 21 st directorial effort, is a decrepit newspaper reporter rushing to save an innocent man on death row.
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."
Accompanying articles describe three Chinese towns: One town is decrepit, polluted, and filled with idle, state-owned factories; one is experimenting with private farming and local democracy; one is bustling with capitalism.
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."
Their tombs and stone markers range from the ostentatious to the elegant, the well preserved to the decrepit.