Sentence examples for very decrepit from inspiring English sources

These prisons, designed based on outdated ideas about incarceration and now very decrepit, are still in use – and their limitations made worse by overcrowding.

First, the new scheme is going to be grafted on to the old income support computer - a computer which only last year, was memorably described by the previous Secretary of State for Social Security as "very decrepit".

Why on earth, when so many doctors themselves wish for a quick death from a massive heart attack, do they expend such efforts (and money) in preventing their patients from having exactly that, consigning us to the expensive and nightmare world of the very old and the very decrepit?

PK: The prison camp in Danbury is a very decrepit building, built in the 1970s to house Watergate prisoners back when it was a men's prison.

"Today, people are still very sharp and able — they are not statutorily decrepit".

So Mr. Obama's penchant for leaving dirty socks around the room is revealed by his wife, a teenager in New Hampshire asks John McCain if he's too decrepit to be president, and reporters dissect Hillary Rodham Clinton's (very discreet) hint of cleavage.

His machinery is decrepit.

The transport system is decrepit.

Many are old and thus decrepit.

Public playgrounds and tennis courts decrepit?

The country's power stations are decrepit.