DECREPIT in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for DECREPIT, such as:

1. The decrepit animal would never pull the hill.
2. The decrepit car blocked traffic on the highway.
3. The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old rusty knocker.
4. In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes.
5. The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison.

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decrepit
 a.  weakened, worn out, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use
Classic Sentence:
1  He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes of his fruit-trees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
2  In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed when they were watching with the sick.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
3  The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old rusty knocker.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
4  The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
5  These buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running from one house to another.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
6  His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
7  In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
8  Then, having taken another look round, I returned to my carriage, where I found that the porter, in spite of the ticket, had given me my decrepit Italian friend as a traveling companion.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
9  The decrepit animal would never pull the hill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  I have a decrepit old uncle who owns three hundred souls and two thousand roubles-worth of other property.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  The decrepit car blocked traffic on the highway.