Sentence examples for decrepit to from inspiring English sources

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Weimar itself was a building site, and the traffic a nightmare, with hordes of fat, newly arrived Mercedes and Audis jamming roads too narrow and decrepit to accommodate them.

For dinner, she dresses in pink and makes an effort to flirt with Bob the Second, who gamely returns her serves but is surely too decrepit to be a serious prospect.

"My preference is that we make such a success of all this and Nick remains leader for so long that by the time a vacancy occurs I'm too decrepit to be taken seriously".

People continue to cook at about the same rate from the moment that they have mastered the art until the moment they die or are too decrepit to continue.

Clare is what we call a "Senior Boomer," someone who's done the course, done it creditably, set aside beaucoup savings, got his kids set up at a safe distance, experienced a conspicuous appreciation in the dollar value of his family home (mortgage paid off), and now wants something a helluva lot nicer before he gets too decrepit to notice it.

Many of the people who had been involved, including the Clarín executive Bernardo Sofovich and the judge who had granted the adoptions, Ofelia Hejt, were dead by then; others, like the Clarín executive Rogelio Frigerio, were too old or mentally decrepit to testify.

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When I was young, I didn't look decrepit enough to be allowed to be as grumpy and questioning as my character was.

It also spends more on public-works projects, as anyone flying from Ho Chi Minh City's somewhat decrepit airport to Hanoi's soon-to-be-expanded one can attest.

You don't want to spoil it by wandering on, decrepit, trying to do Pam Doove!" Shearsmith and Pemberton's next series, Inside No 9, begins on BBC Two on Wednesday December 5th.

"We need to get past vague assurances about leasing some of these decrepit buildings, to a comprehensive plan with follow-through".

When Swiss investigators looked into millions of dollars of obscure "payments" involving the sale of a decrepit refinery to a French oil company, the money trail also led to Liechtenstein.

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