decrepit

Example Sentences

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They loaded salvageable sofas and home appliances onto decrepit blue pickup trucks in the unmistakable 1960s design of local brand Zamyad.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

When the BBC visited in November, workers were busy knocking down a decrepit old barn, one of many that dot the Appalachian landscape.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

Years before the U.S. military set off for battlegrounds in Cuba and the Philippines, rebels in both places had begun to fight for independence from the decrepit Spanish empire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

For that offense, she was grabbed off the street by a half-dozen plainclothes federal agents and detained for weeks in a decrepit ICE facility, thousands of miles away.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025

As it was they used decrepit, struggling old horrors of machines that needed the constant attention of a man like Gay.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck