How To Use Decrepitude In A Sentence
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My journal entry for December 16, 2002, captures my decrepitude.
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In the fifties and sixties, most of those old houses had fallen on hard times and decrepitude.
DEVIL'S CLAW
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Indeed, his scholarship has shown that decrepitude has been a problem with the last 10 directors to retire.
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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
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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
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Suffer a common injury like a blown knee, torn shoulder, or tweaked back and you hasten physiological decrepitude - often through the likes of arthritis.
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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.
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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
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However, Dr. Roberts is unable to offer any assistance, and John begins to age into decrepitude.
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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
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To me, he was the embodiment of decrepitude and stubbornness.
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It has come to imply decrepitude: down-at-heel shoes, wrinkled stockings, woolly hats and trousers kept up by bits of string.
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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
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Watch the heritage programmes that fail to enliven our television viewing and you will hear paeans of praise for the most ghastly buildings whose only merit is their decrepitude.
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The gathering of around 30 people is primarily - as you might expect - elderly to the point of decrepitude.
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I wanted to invent my own exemplary figure who could seem almost as real as the real ones and whose life followed a similar pattern: boarding school, university, Paris in the 20s, the rise of Fascism, war, post-war neglect, disillusion, increasing decrepitude, and so ona long, varied and rackety life that covered most of the century.
William Boyd - An interview with author
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His sister and I were talking about how he saw 25 as the beginning of the slide to old age and decrepitude, so he never wanted to live that long.
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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 age -- to the very last, with so much spring and cheeriness, and such an absence of decrepitude, that even the term venerable hardly seem'd fitting.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
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One cannot count on Jacques Martinez to sing the bad pean to the «death» or «decrepitude» of art, this « thing of the past , like the Sunday Hegelians -- he doesn't believe in it anymore than he does, say, in the death of human beings 'desire for transcendence.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez
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Contain the essence, SOD of abundant grape, mighty anti - oxygenation defer decrepitude.
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For long time, the people have been think that decrepitude is a process of abiogenesis, is the natural regulation that can't resist, the anti-decrepitude is to disobey the physical law.
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Cracked masonry, incessant graffiti and rampant weeds completed an image of decrepitude.
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Good riding will last through age, sickness, and decrepitude, but bad riding will last only as long as youth, health, and strength supply courage; _for good riding is an affair of skill, but bad riding is an affair of courage_.
A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid
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The building had a general air of decrepitude and neglect.
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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
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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
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The bothering and begging are exhaustive and unremitting, and the beggars world-beating in their decrepitude and infirmity.
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That was when I would begin my long slide into senility and decrepitude and start wearing different-coloured socks.
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Many people in their 40s and 50s are in their prime, yet some employers seem to consider them on the slippery slope to decrepitude.
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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.
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I don't dislike the decrepitude of my body - in fact, I respect it, because it's served me well.
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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
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We wanted other people to be polite and ignore our decrepitude.
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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
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As once observed, the problem is ‘not illness but decrepitude.’
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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?
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It can decelerate decrepitude, brighten skin, fade mark and make skin white, tender and healthy.
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Perhaps I was particularly sensitive to his plight, having watched my parent's generation laid waste by decrepitude and death.