decrepit

Example Sentences

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Venezuela will benefit if U.S. oil companies modernize the country’s decrepit oil production facilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

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 • Nov. 13, 2025

Therefore some graves can become abandoned and decrepit over time.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 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

“There’s nothing creepy about it. It’s scientific interest. Backy Medlin looks kind of decrepit to me. How old is he, do you reckon?”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly