Exempel på decrepit

• However, farmers now rely less on these machines, which are now old and decrepit, than they did in the recent past.

• They described themselves in their own words as capable and incapable, able and unable, beautiful and decrepit, funny and feeble.

• That which is decrepit is to be repaired, that which is decayed is to be replaced.

• This might have become necessary because a disproportionate number of unmarried males were lame, blind, or decrepit.

• Elderly men retained the primary responsibility for their own upkeep until they were absolutely decrepit.

• The old and decrepit constituted the majority of people living in hospitals.

• It seemed impossible that modern thought could house itself in such decrepit and superseded chambers.

• This law stated that ' the aged and decrepit ' of every parish were to be supported by a tax, collected from all those who held property in the parish.

• At this stage old and decrepit people are in a better position than the young, because old people can better withstand the temptations that accompany conversion.

• There we saw a decrepit old house with 130 women and children in the most abysmal and appalling conditions.

• I believe that suffering must inevitably occur, quite apart from anything else, in sending these decrepit horses across the sea.

• Does he really believe that it has become decrepit in two years?

• Everybody knows the limitation in raising manpower for the industry and everybody knows that the mines are like the miners, getting old and decrepit.

• It has never been our policy that we should take over the decrepit and dying industries.

• Another landlord in my constituency refuses to carry out repairs to a decrepit house inhabited by a bed-ridden old lady of 90.