Sentence examples for decrepit by from inspiring English sources

Besides, he said, technology companies are already well represented on the Dow: "I don't see Intel, I.B.M. and Hewlett-Packard as old and decrepit by any means," he said.

Stuart Broad, galloping towards the river Taff, set the tone by dismissing three of the top four in a lineup that was looking emasculated and a tad decrepit by the end of the day.

There was a scattering of ancient men in their 30s and 40s; veterans of previous campaigns, decrepit by our youthful harsh lights, but the men in Long Kesh and Crumlin Road and the women in Armagh jail were terribly, terribly young.

But the reactors are old and decrepit, and by 2023 only one will remain.

Unlike the Rana garment-factory complex, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, this was not a decrepit building, by all accounts.

By mid-November, too weak to walk, he retired to bed to tackle "the grisly job" of typing the book on his "decrepit typewriter" by himself.

The burial ground's existence was no secret in the 1970's, when the decrepit house, by then the County Home for the elderly poor, was closed to make way for a public recreation complex.

That pithy aphorism rings out from the play's current Off Broadway production at New World Stages, and not only because it aptly describes the professional and spiritual dead end in which this damaged brother-and-sister team, abandoned in a decrepit theater by a touring company, conjures seemingly infinite variations of role playing and shape shifting.

The castle was little more than a grand but decrepit hunting lodge by the Severn, much bashed about and altered by his Georgian and Victorian ancestors.

The other is the narrow, inward-turning path of psychoanalytic therapy: a hidden, almost secret byway travelled by few (the analysts and their patients), edged by decrepit mansions with drawn shades (the training institutes and the analytic societies), marked with inscrutable road signs (the scientific papers) — the road along which Aaron Green is trudging.

The leapfrogging of decrepit state telecoms by profitable mobile telephone companies is one example.