How to Use decrepitude in a Sentence

decrepitude

noun

• The house has fallen into decrepitude.
• What comes next is easy, too, assuming my brain and the rest of me slide toward decrepitude at a normal rate.
  — Dan McSwain, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• Outsiders, even close friends, weren’t allowed in to witness the decrepitude.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2019
• Once a city reliant on heavy industry, Erie is moving past the stereotype of Rust Belt decrepitude.
  — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• What’s at stake in this fictional world isn’t prison, poverty and early onset decrepitude, but whether or not the wedding bells will ring.
  — Max Watman, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• Donald Trump and his allies have, of course, oversold the extent of Biden’s cognitive decline and decrepitude while Biden has been off the campaign trail.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Sep. 2020
• From that point on, Fuller didn’t have more than 60 receiving yards in any game, as the Houston passing attack fell into a state of utter decrepitude.
  — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• The image lingered: not the external menace of the immigrant, but the internal decrepitude of the food bank, the homeless huddling around the depot.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 8 June 2017
• But the decrepitude of this still beautiful structure stirred something within us—a reminder of a golden age, a symbol of a lost paradise?
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 14 Apr. 2016
• The discipline of writing, from age thirty, became a lifejacket that kept Ellroy afloat above the tide of decrepitude that shaped his early years.
  — Stuart Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
• Her somewhat sad and depressive life is rendered with fine touches, the decrepitude of the home standing in for her current condition.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2021
• If only the actual Miss America were as gorgeous and erudite as this essay about the decrepitude of a stagnant pageant in a changing world.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• An heirloom object, a functional investment, or just a sign of one’s own decrepitude.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2022
• Its school buildings were tired — some edging into decrepitude.
  — Anna M. Phillips, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Chimpanzees take 30 years and humans typically 60 or more before the process of decrepitude begins.
  — Gary Taubes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2011
• Read more: The decrepitude was even too extreme for the Cass Corridor's once-sizable homeless population, who had stopped hanging around inside.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2018
• The street standing in for South Korea, the North’s longtime rival and more prosperous neighbor, includes a seedy brothel, a tawdry bar and a shady blood bank, all seemingly designed to cast it as a paradigm of decrepitude and sin.
  — Laya Maheshwari, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2016
• The return to office of the preferred politicians of this group would signal the decisive nose-dive into moral and intellectual decrepitude of the entire American project.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
• The former president and his four years in the Casa Rosada are the root cause of every evil, from economic decrepitude to the institutional weakness caused by corruption and a crooked Judiciary.
  — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• The modes of loss that Shyamalan dramatizes range from the confusion of sudden adolescence and the anguish of onrushing decrepitude and death to the merely uncanny sense that unexpected pleasures are too good to be true.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 July 2021
• In addition to its general decrepitude, the subway became the site of a violent fare-evasion crackdown in 2019; that same year, cops admitted to profiling black and Latinx commuters.
  — Zoë Hu, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
• County Council took several steps recent years to address the shortcomings that prosecutors said allowed Mills to run the jail into decrepitude.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2021
• Another important reason for the growing ranks of senior athletes is a shift in the mindset of older Americans, who no longer see aging as a sadly inevitable slide into decline and decrepitude.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• Alt-right talking heads have rallied around the remarks, using any episode of violence in Sweden as evidence that the president presciently exposed the nation’s spiraling moral decrepitude.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 20 Oct. 2017
• The residents remained in limbo, mostly fending for themselves—not paying anything, living in buildings that were in varying states of decrepitude, and still considered, technically, squatters.
  — Wes Enzinna, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• In California, state planners and legislators focused on things like outlawing plastic grocery bags while California’s roads and dams over three decades sank into decrepitude.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2017
• Although long considered ancient, in recent years their decrepitude has come under debate, with evidence suggesting a more youthful formation.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
• Although long considered ancient, in recent years their decrepitude has come under debate, with evidence suggesting a more youthful formation.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
• Villeneuve’s most important collaborators are the cinematographer Roger Deakins and the production designer Dennis Gassner, who between them conjure a future world breathtaking in its decrepitude, a gorgeous ruin.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Both the rise of a violently xenophobic, anti-immigrant Republican Party and the increasingly obvious material and political decrepitude of the U.S. will surely cause immigration to fall more in the future.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 29 Nov. 2021

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