Examples of decrepitude in a Sentence
The house has fallen into decrepitude.
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His advanced decrepitude will be matched only by the looming threat of irrelevance in a desensitized world.
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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
How much of the aging process is an inevitable slide into decrepitude, and how much is a result of not getting enough exercise?
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
For years, the levee running along the Pajaro River had been neglected despite concerns about its decrepitude.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
Many famous defendants have aimed for respectability, maturity, wide-eyed innocence or even pitiful decrepitude on their days in court.
—Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
Americans, meanwhile, have a diet of TV shows and memes that link aging with uselessness, weakness, and decrepitude.
—Marty Munson, Men's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
At 72 years of age (that’s 14 in cat years), Lloyd Webber bears no signs of decrepitude.
—Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
People bought there, people built there, and when the real estate company folded, the sign that was meant to stand for 18 months soldiered on into decrepitude for years.
—Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
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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
How much of the aging process is an inevitable slide into decrepitude, and how much is a result of not getting enough exercise?
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
For years, the levee running along the Pajaro River had been neglected despite concerns about its decrepitude.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
Many famous defendants have aimed for respectability, maturity, wide-eyed innocence or even pitiful decrepitude on their days in court.
—Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
Americans, meanwhile, have a diet of TV shows and memes that link aging with uselessness, weakness, and decrepitude.
—Marty Munson, Men's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
At 72 years of age (that’s 14 in cat years), Lloyd Webber bears no signs of decrepitude.
—Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
People bought there, people built there, and when the real estate company folded, the sign that was meant to stand for 18 months soldiered on into decrepitude for years.
—Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
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First Known Use
1603, in the meaning defined above
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“Decrepitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decrepitude. Accessed 3 Dec. 2023.
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decrepitude
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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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