decrepit

Example Sentences

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alleges “decrepit” conditions inside the detention facility.

From Los Angeles Times

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

The decrepit lampposts cast a faint light onto Autumn’s face, which is drawn tight as she catches her breath.

From Literature

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