Decrepit is an English word with synonyms like creaky or weakly. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Decrepit meaning
Weakened or worn out from age or wear.
Synonyms of Decrepit
Using Decrepit
- The main meaning on this page is: Weakened or worn out from age or wear.
- Useful related words include: creaky, weakly, weak, sapless.
- In the example corpus, decrepit often appears in combinations such as: the decrepit, decrepit old, and decrepit.
Context around Decrepit
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Decrepit
- In this selection, "decrepit" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seriously, owning, two, old, cell and leaking stand out and add context to how "decrepit" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a narrow decrepit street in and at a decrepit chuck e. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "decrepit" sits close to words such as abakaliki, abbasi and abductors, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with decrepit
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Not only is it empty, it is decrepit. (8 words)
He was even busted for being a slumlord owning decrepit apartments. (11 words)
The decrepit property was captured in a photo series by photographer Richard Lewis. (13 words)
Mr. Lida, 60, and the author of “First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century,” arrived early at our hotel in the Roma neighborhood, and we took an Uber to a narrow, decrepit street in the historic center of the city. (46 words)
A cricket team can ravage a ball all it likes, but if its swing bowlers cannot pull off their tricks, all the team is left with is a prematurely old and decrepit ball and a long, fruitless time in the field. (41 words)
The haunted house being a decrepit cliché at this point, the new horror film “Night Swim” moves the action to the backyard and supplies something it hopes will make more of a splash: the haunted swimming pool. (37 words)
On what grounds are pre-trial January 8 Riot suspects being held in the decrepit DC federal lockup without bail on rinky-dink charges two years after the event? (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
As Mann was led away by a prison officer to her decrepit cell, she cried: 'I really don't know what more to say or what to do.
Here at LSU, several presidents and most of the faculty have long yearned to replace our decrepit, leaking and crumbling 65-year-old library.
Mike would rather not work the night shift at a decrepit “Chuck E. Cheese”-type entertainment center, as he tells the friendly but mysterious cop Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail).
On what grounds are pre-trial January 8 Riot suspects being held in the decrepit DC federal lockup without bail on rinky-dink charges two years after the event?
Saxena also visited King Prithviraj Chauhan's Qila Rai Pithora and expressed "grave disappointment at its decrepit state due to neglect by authorities", they said.
Turning the tide is going to take rehabilitating many formerly trusted but decrepit institutions, including religion, marriage, and medicine.
Unfortunately for them, the decrepit house is the residence of a family of deranged backwoods killers who begin to hunt the strander group one by one.
According to observations, Republicans are constantly trying to create an image of the 81-year-old President Joe Biden as an old and decrepit old man.
He was also the only member of the Fenshawe clan who appeared to have an entirely unproblematic relationship with its now seriously decrepit alpha male.
He was even busted for being a slumlord owning decrepit apartments.
Not only is this decrepit old man barbaric, he also is clueless about running a business.
The decrepit property was captured in a photo series by photographer Richard Lewis.
The haunted house being a decrepit cliché at this point, the new horror film “Night Swim” moves the action to the backyard and supplies something it hopes will make more of a splash: the haunted swimming pool.
The struggle for trade and a reliance on regulars, as well as theories on the decrepit state of the building, were common themes among the traders I spoke to.
Well, as spicy as it could be between two decrepit old men we already had to choose between four years ago.
A cricket team can ravage a ball all it likes, but if its swing bowlers cannot pull off their tricks, all the team is left with is a prematurely old and decrepit ball and a long, fruitless time in the field.
Among other disincentives, infrastructure is decrepit, at less than 5,000 megawatts, electricity is virtually epileptic and security has deteriorated rapidly.
He quickly tucked his head back behind as a wave of bullets streamed past, slamming into the decrepit husk of a car.
Mr. Lida, 60, and the author of “First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century,” arrived early at our hotel in the Roma neighborhood, and we took an Uber to a narrow, decrepit street in the historic center of the city.
Not only is it empty, it is decrepit.
Common combinations with decrepit
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: