How to use "decrepit" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "decrepit" in popular movie and book plots

  • Musk leads an assault on a factory, which results in heavy casualties and the survivors being surrounded in a decrepit building.  - Stalingrad (1993 film)
  • Now living alone in a decrepit house, he has casual weekly sex with an anonymous woman (Fox), whose name he doesn't know.  - Intimacy (film)
  • He then uses the Time gem taken from the Gardener to turn the Runner first into an extremely old and decrepit man, and then into an infant.  - The Thanos Quest
  • In the kitchen live Kvashnya (Dough), a vendor of meat pies, the decrepit Baron, and the streetwalker Nastya.  - The Lower Depths
  • 10-year-old Michael and his family have recently moved into a decrepit house on Falconer Road.  - Skellig
  • In exchange, she will provide enough money to revitalize the decrepit town.  - The Visit (play)
  • Some years later, Peg Boggs, a local Avon door-to-door saleswoman, visits the decrepit Gothic mansion on the hill where Edward lives.  - Edward Scissorhands
  • Eventually, Johnny ends up in a decrepit opera hall, where the worst of tortures are taking place.  - Haunted Castle (2001 film)
  • They determine that their goal lies inside a decayed and decrepit industrial building.  - Stalker (1979 film)
  • A pair of truck drivers, the experienced Gorō and a younger sidekick named Gun, stop at a decrepit roadside ramen noodle shop.  - Tampopo
  • She rapidly ages and Mordred kills her, repulsed by the sight of his once beautiful mother now reduced to a decrepit old crone.  - Excalibur (film)
  • The local aristocrat and his decrepit wife raise a toast to the dying flames.  - Amarcord
  • After church, Dilsey allows her grandson Luster to drive Benjy in the family's decrepit horse and carriage to the graveyard.  - The Sound and the Fury
  • At Calais, Percy openly approaches Chauvelin in the Chat gris, a decrepit inn whose owner is in Percy's pay.  - The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • At the same time, administrators must deal with a protest against the hospital's annexation of an adjacent and decrepit apartment building.  - The Hospital
  • Almásy retrieves Katharine's body from the Cave and, while flying back, the decrepit plane leaks oil onto him and both of them catch fire.  - The English Patient

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