decrepit

Example Sentences

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So why, unlike China during its boom years, isn't India's blazing GDP growth leading to a regeneration of its decrepit cities?

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

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

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

But now, her memories came tumbling toward her—a kindly old man, a decrepit castle, a clutch of scholars with their faces buried in books, a mournful mother dragon saying good-bye.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill