Sentence examples for slightly decrepit from inspiring English sources

Iconic outlet: Porto's strong suit is that independent, slightly decrepit stores vastly outnumber the chains.

The tall buildings rising beyond her small and slightly decrepit terrace on the Upper West Side just don't compare.

Talley persuaded a socialite named Sao Schlumberger to lend Galliano her large, unused, and slightly decrepit house near Saint-Sulpice.

It is best to enter from the Via della Mercede, have a look at Bernini's magnificent statues of angels to your left, and then slip through the doors on the far side into the peaceful, slightly decrepit cloisters.

In Chad Harbach's first novel, "The Art of Fielding" (Little, Brown; $25.99), Henry Skrimshander arrives for his first day at Westish College, a "slightly decrepit liberal arts school on the western shore of Lake Michigan," with a beat-up copy of a book called "The Art of Fielding" in his pocket.

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As swathes of Britain's cities are knocked down, dragged away by diggers and replaced with those flats with little glass-fronted balconies, we're quietly losing some of those slightly decrepit-looking areas.

I have a slightly later, yellowing and decrepit edition, from 1971, though it's the same oversized format.

The effect is of an airy, slightly dusty atelier or a decrepit antebellum mansion that Walker Evans might have photographed.

Each of the 11 tracks follow a slightly different path to the band recording in Manhattan's infamously decrepit Scepter Studios, stopping here and there to examine the their unquestionable legacy and the relationship between Lou Reed and John Cale who formed the central core with Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker.

Its ultra-modern powder tower rises like a skyscraper over a gleaming white R&D facility, looking slightly out of place in the impoverished countryside around it, where a decrepit coal mine, now closed, used to be the main employer.