How to Use decrepit in a Sentence

decrepit

adjective

• My decrepit car barely starts.
• My decrepit old self still watches all that stuff every year.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• 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
• One of their targets is decrepit cells that build up in tissues as people age.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• The apartment house has risen on the site of a decrepit early parking garage.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2024
• The prison held too many inmates, and the conditions were too decrepit.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Features look decrepit, plants are overgrown, and parts of the road are missing.
  — Andrea Romano, Smithsonian, 23 Apr. 2018
• What happens when the nonexistent bumps against the decrepit?
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 1 Aug. 2017
• Goma is married as a 7-year-old to a decrepit 70-year-old man.
  — Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
• But the castle is away from the main fray, decrepit and really haunted.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
• France is in the middle, though some of the prisons in France are pretty decrepit.
  — Maura Ewing, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2017
• But the work was not completed, leaving him with a makeshift kitchen and a decrepit bathroom.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• Along with this, two men have taken to using the same decrepit area to fix their cars on a daily basis.
  — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
• Hitting the low, sandy bottom, the decrepit boat broke apart about 100 yards from the shore.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Soon, a vast, decrepit oil tanker in the Red Sea will likely sink, catch fire, or explode.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• 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
• The montage ends with Rick standing across the water from a decrepit looking city.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2022
• My parents live near the decrepit seaside town of Westward Ho!
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2008
• 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
• And there was this really decrepit old piano shoved off to the side, and Bob was kinda hunched over it.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
• The Spurs aren’t exactly decrepit.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2026
• The motel, which had grown decrepit over the years, was acquired by the state park system in 2001.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
• Many struggled to feed themselves and were placed in decrepit locations where children and parents slept four or more to a bed.
  — Spencer Norris, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2026
• The days of muddy and decrepit fields at McClatchy High School will be no more.
  — Jacob Sweet, sacbee.com, 17 June 2017
• 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
• In the dog days of summer, the kids discover a decrepit house and the old man (Rentaro Mikuni) who lives there alone.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
• But the United States has only three such vessels, one of which is so decrepit as to be barely usable.
  — Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
• The most decrepit and weather-worn houses appear to be empty, although a few show outward signs that they are occupied.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
• 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