decrepit

Example Sentences

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At California City Detention Facility, immigrants file lawsuit over alleged ‘shockingly deficient’ medical care, frigid temperatures, bugs crawling on walls, sewage backups, inadequate food and water, and generally ‘decrepit’ conditions.

From Los Angeles Times

During her run as Celie in The Color Purple in London, she recalls critics complaining that her character wasn’t “gray” or “decrepit” enough and that the show “wasn’t violent enough.”

From Salon

In the end, the Mobutu era left few visible traces behind: a handful of palaces and monuments to the late dictator lie decrepit, while virtually no infrastructure from his time survives to this day.

From Barron's

Now, it needs to spend more again on the military and shore up crumbling infrastructure, from potholed roads to a decrepit rail system.

From The Wall Street Journal

He wasn’t talking to them or to the decrepit Democratic power structure they represent.

From Salon