How To Use Decrepit In A Sentence

An American family of eight has gone missing while driving from Michigan to Alaska and police believe they may be somewhere in northern B.C. Several families with loved ones who are mentally ill are speaking out about what they call a decrepit, overcrowded, ineffective psychiatric facility at Vancouver General Hospital. CBC | Top Stories News
As once observed, the problem is ‘not illness but decrepitude.’
This time it was a decrepit, dark and deserted Tudor style house.
A few kilometers down a decrepit road is a sprawling abandoned battery factory.
One old man, who I learned was a bosun, was so decrepit that I thought he had been recently injured. CHAPTER II

The piano, decrepit on its legs, though made of good wood painted black and gilded, was dirty, defaced, and scratched; and its keys, worn like the teeth of old horses, were yellowed with the fuliginous colors of the pipe. A Daughter of Eve
English liberals took a decrepit old system and reformed it from within by stressing efficiency and freedom. Times, Sunday Times
But as a middle-class kid who now lives in an uninsulated, leaking warehouse that would best be described as a decrepit if romantic squat, I know how quickly once gets used to these things.
I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering old man.
In addition, it also resists compaction and promotes decrepitation of the alloy.
Near the middle, Semiha Berksoy, a 90-year-old Turkish opera squawker, campily bedizened and reclining on a sofa, is slowly propelled across the stage as a recording of the Liebestod is encroached on by her decrepit screech.
Meanwhile, the country – the Paris magazine describes it scrupulously as Grande Bretagne, though Amis is happier with Angleterre – is infused with "moral decrepitude". Cursing one's homeland before fleeing overseas, Martin Amis, is a cliche
David turned to the decrepit man sitting in the interrogation room.
Like so many places on the island, it's filled with old and slightly decrepit buildings. Times, Sunday Times
He remembered the days when some of the old men, still alive, had been born; and, unlike him, they were now decrepit, shaken with palsy, blear-eyed, toothless of mouth, deaf of ear, or paralysed. CHAPTER XI
Two decrepit beech trees still stand on the rim of the brambly circle on the hill above steep woods by Vernigo. Country diary: St Mellion, Tamar Valley
In this city, so many beat cops troll along at a snail's pace in decrepit squad cars. Graffiti: Mexico City's wall art emerges from the shadows
Girlfight surrounds her with familiar fight-movie elements: the decrepit gym, decorated with hortatory slogans; the wizened coach with his own agenda of disappointments.
But soon he decrepitly emerged upon his knees, asking what brought us thither? Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
All that remained at Assonde were the decrepit shells of houses.
The buildings were in a decrepit state.
The fantasy is unfolding almost invisibly in Prakash Talkies, a decrepit theater with shocking pistachio green walls.
Even so, shortly after the funeral she began to forget Reeves's final decrepitude and to cherish earlier memories. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Meh, no one would want my decrepit organs anyway.
It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to out-brave the blustering boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people. Bracebridge Hall
The bothering and begging are exhaustive and unremitting, and the beggars world-beating in their decrepitude and infirmity.
That was when I would begin my long slide into senility and decrepitude and start wearing different-coloured socks.
For one of them, in fact, it was positively his thirtieth birthday; poor soul, how decrepitly he flitted in front of motor trucks. Pipefuls
They seemed to be quite decrepit, but that may have been only a trick of the light.
Many people in their 40s and 50s are in their prime, yet some employers seem to consider them on the slippery slope to decrepitude.
Bed and TV share room space with decrepit tumble dryers, clapped-out car and, inevitably, the kitchen sink. Die Frau ohne Schatten; BBC Proms 61 & 62 – review
The mortality rate for refugees in the overloaded and decrepit boats continues to rise.
It is old, rickety, and decrepit, and miraculously survives the nine-day trip.
On heating in a closed tube it decrepitates slightly, blackens and gives off water having an alkaline reaction.
The roller skates themselves are neither pristine nor completely decrepit, which is common for skating facilities, while the choice between traditional roller skates and modern inline skates will drastically affect the quality of the skating experience. Paly Voice
Traditional Chinese Medicine has abundant clinical experience and form theoretical system to postpone decrepitude, it emphasize that spleen is the root of after-birth and the source of qi and blood.
Decrepit old Shepherd Hall is being renovated at staggering expense.
English liberals took a decrepit old system and reformed it from within by stressing efficiency and freedom. Times, Sunday Times
Before he could protest, Raylaa had already disappeared into the porch, where the hideous sidecar and the motorcycle with the peeling red paint stood, worn down and decrepit.
With pop music playing, they always look so young, fresh-faced, attractive and carefree, and make me feel so old, ugly and decrepit.
Incapable of reforming itself in the spirit of the new times, the decrepit empire sank into a deep economic and social crisis which it never overcame.
And she left him standing there feeling like a decrepit old geezer because he didn't have any body art. The Sun
The gunpowder without the mephitis being fired, the combustion was soon communicated to the other extremity of the train, and to the phosphorus, which took fire with decrepitation, burnt rapidly, with a bright flame, slightly coloured with veilow and green, and left on the wood a black mark, as of charcoal. A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan
Shah Jahan would recover from his illness only to spend his last days as an old and decrepit man, imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb, in the fort in Agra.
Anna is a femme fatale looking for a young powerful lover to help her murder her decrepit husband and make off with his fortune.
To John in FL: Thanks for reminding us why FL is the decrepit dingleberry hanging from America's southern ignorance. doug Obama says 'justice will be done' in Times Square bombing
To less decrepit members of the population than me, life means nightlife.
Tragically misplaced amongst a series of powerful speakers, the decrepit trio brought roars from the pressroom and discomfort for all who shun corniness.
Thus, near the middle, Semiha Berksoy, a 90-year-old Turkish opera squawker, campily bedizened and reclining on a sofa, is slowly propelled across the stage as a recording of the Liebestod is encroached on by her decrepit screech.
And for the last time cease and desist from sending anymore of these decrepitly incoherent four-hundred year-old fossils from its ex-vice presidency outpost who did not have the balls to run for president crapping all over the one who had the stones to seek victory and claim it. James Campion: 2010: Year of the Faux Revolution
I strolled into the control room from the studio, and noticed a large fat bloke with a shaven head, wearing a decrepit old tan mac.
I remember visiting him with George when he was Professor of English at Sheffield and was living in a decrepit basement flat, with unshaded electric light bulbs and no bathroom, only a stone sink.
I don't dislike the decrepitude of my body - in fact, I respect it, because it's served me well.
Now this King was become a very old man, weakened and wasted with age and sickness and decrepitude; for he had lived an hundred and fourscore years and had no child, male or female, by reason whereof he was ever in cark and care from morning to night and from night to morn. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
As Heather approached it she saw that it had a piece of decrepit parchment, all rolled up like a scroll.
We wanted other people to be polite and ignore our decrepitude.
While Cyclo Nord-Sud focuses exclusively on helping people in the South, one cycling group with a local angle is SOS Vélo, now issuing a call-out for decrepit bikes that will be cannibalized and transformed into workable wheels.
Ego quoque hercle illum antehac hominem semper sum frugi ratus, verum hoc facto sese ostendit, qui quidem cum filio potet una atque una amicam ductet, decrepitus senex. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
This beautiful, decrepit city is at its most breathtaking at night, when thousands of lights of the houses on the surrounding hills frame and light up the bay.
Three Kiktu warriors were especially vociferous in their displeasure; exchanging loud quips on the subject of pitiful, decrepit, tired, over-large, old, ugly, beaten-down, one-eyed sexual deviates.
The decrepit two-bedroom apartment behind this unassuming portal is an essential junction of what activists in Iraq and their U.S. supporters call the Underground Railroad. 13 « November « 2009 « Dating Jesus
The example of the savages, most of whom have been found in this condition, seems to confirm that mankind was formed ever to remain in it, that this condition is the real youth of the world, and that all ulterior improvements have been so many steps, in appearance towards the perfection of individuals, but in fact towards the decrepitness of the species. Second Part
True, you will have to charm the decrepit blimps and blue rinses from the shires into voting for you.
They tended to be depressing these visits: the married sister was living in a small way; the first cousin seemed to have got into a rut; the uncle and aunt were failing, with a stooping, trembling, old-fashioned kind of decrepitude, a rigidity of body and mind, which somehow one didn't see much over home. The Imperialist
Demolition debris surrounds the stately but decrepit house of Sripathi Rao, Nandana's grandfather.
The city's absolute cheapest listing is a decrepit, one-bedroom co-op roughly 50 feet from Long Island Sound in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx. Picking Over the Low End
How did he find so many decrepit buildings to work on? Times, Sunday Times
I trudged over to a ramshackle building reminding me of a snack bar at our decrepit drive-in theater.
Some might say old and decrepit. Times, Sunday Times
The building had a general air of decrepitude and neglect.
While Matthau gives a complex (if infuriating) performance as a decrepit, foul-mouthed alcoholic who is still a much-loved father figure, the rest of the cast are sadly underused.
We will still grow old and decrepit and die of other things. Times, Sunday Times
CC me on your missives if you like. disgraced professional simulator Francisco Toro, the Venezuelan 2002 coup supporter who wrote a decrepitly dishonest essay published by The New Republic today about Honduras. The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
Trips can also be arranged to visit the decrepit gulags and labor camps used so mercilessly by Stalin during the Red Terror.
Salim says the nation won over crisis once before - hyperinflation, no jobs, decrepit infrastructure.
Ego quoque hercle illum antehac hominem semper sum frugi ratus, verum hoc facto sese ostendit, qui quidem cum filio potet una atque una amicam ductet, decrepitus senex. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
But the fact that he's so old, and so decrepit, and has a walker, and can barely move on his own, makes it funny and makes it work.
Outside the grimy windows of the decrepit lounge that serves as a Cabinet office the autumn sunlight filtered through the leaves of the plane trees.
Which also were altogether insupportable did not I pity its condition, in being present with it, and, as the poets 'gods were wont to assist such as were dying with some pleasant metamorphosis, help their decrepitness as much as in me lies by bringing them back to a second childhood, from whence they are not improperly called twice children. The Praise of Folly
All thirteen members, in addition to sound engineers, techs, etc., piled into a decrepit two-story apartment in Montreal and remained there, uninterrupted, for five days.
And she left him standing there feeling like a decrepit old geezer because he didn't have any body art. The Sun
It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to outbrave the blustering Boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field, was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
The setting is unbelievable detailed with its decrepitness yet infused with a ragamuffin lifestyle of people getting by in the most unexpected ways. Today in Fantasy: September 22, 2009
The place held no terrors, despite the fact that here were a dozen houses so decrepit as to be almost unrecognisable. Times, Sunday Times
From a regional base in the lakeside town of Sevan -- a collection of glum Soviet buildings scattered over a high plateau, with a decrepit ferris wheel strangely creaking in the wind at its entrance -- young Belgian psychologist Dr. Luk Van Baelen leads me on a journey into the dark world of the uncared-for mind. 'Writing On The Edge' Excerpt: Paradise Lost For Armenian Refugees
The disciplinal has been inferior to homogenate ulalgia tusk of watchmaker, an arceuthobium that fireplace kutuzov the scabicide from uninvited decrepitation. Rational Review
According to council reports, two thirds of the houses are decrepit with out-of-date heating systems, crumbling walls and dodgy electrics.
If I were a litigant, I would not like an ageing and decrepit judge sitting on my case, where the amounts at issue might be significant.
How I shall henceforth dwell on the blessed hours when, not long since, I saw that benignant face, the clear eyes, the silently smiling mouth, the form yet upright in its great ageto the very last, with so much spring and cheeriness, and such an absence of decrepitude, that even the term venerable hardly seemd fitting. By Emerson’s Grave. Specimen Days
He was faced with the great challenge of updating a decrepit and wasteful government system and responding to demands for increased freedom while maintaining order.
It was falling down in decrepit shape, and since it was within a few feet from both their house and their other neighbors’ house, there was a real risk that it could take out a wall of a home if/when it collapsed. Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia
The guard at the gate watched the decrepit old man limp along in the distance.
Elsewhere, and just hitting the screens, he shirks the dotage and decrepitude forcing him into the quiet life for a final fling at what he does best.
He was a ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a silver ship descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake.
The novelist also directly condemns China as ‘an old hag so decrepit and brainsick that she would devour her children to sustain herself’ .
Even if she were in trouble she would not leave her decrepit house in a nightgown.
When people feel irritable about the lack of bounce in the economic rebound; when words like malaise and phrases like triple dip and creeping decrepitude are bruited about - the moment is ripe for yeasayers to pop the pessimists.
The crystals are in the form of small cubes and contain no water of crystallization; some water is, however, held in cavities in the crystals and causes the salt to decrepitate when heated. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
Here, "decrepitude" means that things are torn away from "world," from a richer network of meaningfulness, and are instead substitutable, indifferent items in the technological ordering of reality. Archive 2008-03-01
Behind the decrepit beadsmen came a long array of Canterbury canons, chaplains and dignitaries in all their robes, followed by pages carrying the maces of Canterbury and York and the cross of Canterbury.
Until the present Foreign Office was built in the 1860s, the department was housed in decrepit buildings in Downing Street.
We had just walked to the top of the hill and scrambled among the ruins of decrepit churches and an old stone castle.
Some might say old and decrepit. Times, Sunday Times
She lives alone with her young baby in a damp, decrepit house.
The decrepit appearance of the municipal dwelling houses, however, masked their true value.
In this work, the decrepitation process was examined with regard to mechanical properties and microstructure.
I laughed and ran downstairs holding my car keys and decrepit backpack that was practically falling apart.
It won't put medicine in decrepit hospitals or food in empty bellies.
In countries where the nobility are destitute of public employment, they naturally degenerate -- become the victims of the diseases of indolence and profligacy, transmit their decrepitude to their descendants, and bequeath dwarfishness and deformity to their name. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
But that is as far as I can go in praising this decrepit and mentally unbalanced person.
Despite his decrepit appearance, Barlow was as dexterous as a monkey. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
He'd been stilting past the decrepit wooden door in the tower's base when Domino and ZuZu exited through it, carrying pails, brooms, and mops. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
The life of a French bank note is said to average two or three years, and does not terminate until the condition is very shaky indeed -- crimpled, pierced with pinholes, corner creases torn, soft, tarnished, decrepit while yet young. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
Working closely with indie labels, bands did the dirty work of booking their own tours and driving in decrepit vans and sleeping on floors and in parking lots – hammering out a vibrant (and, yes, highly flawed) new underground culture where one didn’t exist before. Indie Publishing « So Many Books
The decrepit fingers looked like ten claws as they clutched loathsomely at the greasy bread and butter; I felt qualmish, and passed by without addressing him. Hunger
On the other hand we meet people much younger who behave as if they were decrepit and refuse to keep up with the times.
Bletchley was quite inspiring: a lovely old manor house surrounded by some rackety and decrepit WWII-era huts, with some brick buildings as well.
I've moved from a tiny, decrepit college room to a smaller, equally crumbly college-owned house.
Craig always was a little sensitive to the crew's jokes about the Captain's developing senility and decrepitude, considering that he was one of the oldest engineers about the Maiden, at the age of 63.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the son of the Persian King, after disguising himself as an old man shotten in years and taking a seat in the garden, spread out somewhat of the jewels and ornaments before him and made a show of shaking and trembling as if for decrepitude and the weakness of extreme senility. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
How did he find so many decrepit buildings to work on? Times, Sunday Times
He leaned against the concrete stairwell that led to a decrepit parking garage, desperately nonchalant, while Trixie got her floorshow face on. Archive 2006-08-27
Past the overgrown lawn, through the decrepit rose arbour and into the Wilderness.
When examined under a dissecting scope, hermaphrodites fed Cry5B toxin for 2-3 days develop decrepit internal morphology, have pale coloration, and move slowly.
The most apropos description of this cycle of inherent decrepitude is perhaps the Yiddish word schlock, meaning something "cheap, shoddy, or inferior. Schlock Doctrine: Where, and by Whom, Was Your Christmas Made?
A ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a parachute descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake.
One by one, the aged tottered in, each one seemingly more decrepit than the one before.
A distant cloud of dust signals the approach of a decrepit utility.
Heated to rednefs for half an hour, it does not decrepitate, but lofes 45 per ct. of its weight. Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...
Not, as you might think, an organisation that cares for old, decrepit deejays, but a charity set up by mixmasters to donate money to a Music Therapy Trust.
One of his long time friends asked how a decrepit bloke like him had landed such a gorgeous dame.
We ran into the docking bay and could not believe the decrepit derelict of a ship that he had waiting for us.
And it would be lovely to actually build that house on Gola before we're too decrepit to take advantage of it.
Pellets with Portland cement, after drying, did not present decrepitation, showing a correlation between the decrepitation, moisture content and mechanical strength of the pellet.
Their meager ark is a decrepit shopping cart filled with muddy blankets and morsels they share amongst themselves and rarely with strangers. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
I am feeling decidedly old and decrepit this morning and rather disgruntled with life and myself in general!
The triangular island was a closed military area in Soviet times but today is a wasteland of decrepit buildings. Times, Sunday Times
At 65, he isn't decrepit, and you note that others were reluctant to retire at 70.
Shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and old, And she rose up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. The Story of My Life
It can decelerate decrepitude, brighten skin, fade mark and make skin white, tender and healthy.
Visitors entered a run-down building in a downscale neighborhood to discover what appeared to be a decrepit, abandoned reptile zoo.
The place held no terrors, despite the fact that here were a dozen houses so decrepit as to be almost unrecognisable. Times, Sunday Times
I never dreamed my feet could look so beautiful and almost danced back out onto the street where the scent of cigarette smoke, Chanel No. 5, garlic, and apple napoleon mingled in the air with the angst-ridden soundtrack provided by a lonely violinist and decrepit accordion player. Welcome to My World
Upon the days when M. Violette -- they now called him at the office "Father Violette," he had grown so aged and decrepit -- was not too much "consoled" in the cafe in the Rue du Four, and when he was less silent and gloomy than usual, he would say to his son, after the soup: The French Immortals Series — Complete
There remained a chance that Foden was not actually flotsam himself but the decrepit beachcomber who'd learned to value it. THE QUEST FOR K
Some are said to contain nitre, a proof of which is shown by their frequent decrepitation when thrown on the fire. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
And she left him standing there feeling like a decrepit old geezer because he didn't have any body art. The Sun
Perhaps I was particularly sensitive to his plight, having watched my parent's generation laid waste by decrepitude and death.
This is a very small house and I do not need more decrepit old chairs. Times, Sunday Times
Schools look more decrepit than houses, government offices, strung along the road, so run down you wonder if anybody ever visits them.
He recalled the deafening thunder of the drums, the glare and the blood, the moon peering down through the branches like the face of a perverse divinity pale from pride, and the thought that had come to him there, in his sickness and lonely hopelessness -- that while some in a fit of decrepitude and despair might turn to God, others might turn to the oblivion promised by evil. Sacrifice
The triangular island was a closed military area in Soviet times but today is a wasteland of decrepit buildings. Times, Sunday Times
Several families with loved ones who are mentally ill are speaking out about what they call a decrepit, overcrowded, ineffective psychiatric facility at Vancouver General Hospital. CBC | Top Stories News
It might be that I'm too decrepit for the pace of it or it might be the lyrics.
Not only because of her physical decrepitness, that Time Was
The first two are evident, as when it fuses it runs into a globule; the last, by inspecting it before and after the heating with a magnifying glass; sometimes it froths up when heated, and is then said to "intumesce;" or, if it flies to fragments, "decrepitates. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
He seems to have lost his touch since Day of the Dead, which I thought was fantastic and creepy and was very atmospheric as far as the macabre, decrepitness goes. Red Band Trailer for George Romero's Survival of the Dead « FirstShowing.net
What about the shame of housing bright, eager international students in mould infested, decrepit residences?
His design transports you to the gaudy, decrepit fairground, complete with working helter-skelter and carousel, and shows you the beauty in the ramshackle and ruinous.
Like so many places on the island, it's filled with old and slightly decrepit buildings. Times, Sunday Times
As with Paradise, this story begins in a decrepit relic of a house inhabited by women on the edge of a dying town.
The outside of the school is done up very nice to create a façade on the outside, but on the inside everything is dilapidated and decrepit.
Visitors entered a run-down building in a downscale neighborhood to discover what appeared to be a decrepit, abandoned reptile zoo.
Most of what makes you unhappy and disturbs you will therefore be dead before you are, since much of it is older and more decrepit than you. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
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But instead they're sandblasting the larger, more imposing properties of Barkerend Road, which looked comparatively decent, unlike the rows of decrepit back streets hidden behind.
My parents are not decrepit old people; they insist on remaining as young as possible, and by doing so, they keep me young too.
The only condition where decrepitation might take place is in the low temperature, high strain metamorphic environment.
Despite his decrepit appearance, Barlow was as dexterous as a monkey. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
In the fifties and sixties, most of those old houses had fallen on hard times and decrepitude. DEVIL'S CLAW
Sam Tuk sat motionless, his hands concealed in his sleeves, bending decrepitly forward in his chair. Dope
Indeed, his scholarship has shown that decrepitude has been a problem with the last 10 directors to retire.
This consisted of the most old-fashioned disco you could imagine - in a decrepit building in the middle of nowhere. Times, Sunday Times
I believe Milo's decrepitness and leglessness show the price he paid for the wheel. Week 41: Look to the Goblet, Ralph
Some pyrrhotite is relatively unstable in humid environments, decrepitating like pyrite.
Animated by its cheering influence, even old decrepitude no longer feels his habitual pains -- the fire of youth is in his eye, as he details to the company the exploits which distinguished him in the days of '_auld langsyne_;' while the young, with hearts inflamed with '_love and glory_,' long to mingle in the more lively scenes of mirth, to display their prowess and agility. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
The background of Silvia Prieto is the savage capitalism of the market economy while in La ciénaga it is the decrepit world of traditional rural economies.
Every day citizens and visitors who have to walk through the city must step gingerly over or around these decrepit characters.
We were quite tired when we reached our destination, rode up a washed and "gullied" approach to a most miserable looking habitation, a little have cultivated enclosure on one side, a lot on the other in which stood a poor bay horse, while outside under a tree languished a miserable claybank, with his back all bloody, a decrepit paling enclosed a little yard before the door where Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865.
The last two stages, old age — up to seventy years — and the remaining years of very old age or "decrepitude," are the periods in life in which people "have very weak natural heat [and] the superfluities increase. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Suffer a common injury like a blown knee, torn shoulder, or tweaked back and you hasten physiological decrepitude - often through the likes of arthritis.
I believe Milo's decrepitness and leglessness show the price he paid for the wheel. Week 41: Look to the Goblet, Ralph
I'd much rather be de-frosted in a hundred years time a reasonably virile man in his twenties, rather than a decrepit octogenarian who had already died once.
The presenters are forced to cross the wilds of Burma in decrepit old lorries and then complete a challenge. Times, Sunday Times
She was celebrated for her poetic talent, her stunning beauty during her youth, her trifling with amorous men, and her suffering from decrepitude and destitution in old age.
The Damp Fellows (who must have been in exceedingly good shape beneath their tailored trench coats) beat me by a length or two, but the teenage girl was a whiny smoker and I left her in the dust, despite my advanced decrepitude. Panic! at the bus stop
Perhaps one reason why the brassworks employed so many crooked and decrepit was as an efficiency measure. Working With the Working Woman
Let Lake Ponchetrain cleanse the land of the filth and remnants of decadance that thrived in that decrepit excuse for a city since its inception. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine
Therefore the only safe way of determining whether decrepitation occurs or not is by testing the stone, preferably under field conditions. 3. Technical and Production Information
However, Dr. Roberts is unable to offer any assistance, and John begins to age into decrepitude.
Mixed together with oxidisers, these compounds combust by producing small explosions or ‘decrepitation’ at the surface of the burning mixture.
Alas, no one understands that the world is sinking on the ocean of Time that is so very deep and that is infested with those huge crocodiles called decrepitude and death. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
To me, he was the embodiment of decrepitude and stubbornness.
And here she was, sitting in this decrepit house on the island, trying to make a life for herself as a painter.
The rock is so thoroughly altered it decrepitates on exposure to the atmosphere.
The girls were lounging on the grass; Ann sat in a decrepit aluminum chair, its woven webbing frayed.
Large pots, merciless heat and a few decrepit plastic chairs and buckets fill her small tent, while bits of stale food cover the floor.
On the day that the PLP seeks to wrap itself in laurels of humanitarianism, their Government admits that there are still no funds to replace the decrepit and wholly inadequate homeless shelter in Bermuda. Global Voices in English » Bermuda: Guantanamo Protest
There were two couches of the kind they used to call ottomans inside, which had evidently once formed part of the _château_ furnishings for their faded splendour accorded little with the decrepit interior of the hut. Jacqueline of Golden River
Most of what makes you unhappy and disturbs you will therefore be dead before you are, since much of it is older and more decrepit than you. THROWING THE ELEPHANT

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