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The decrepit computer can't handle iTunes updates.
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a decrepit bus held together with duct tape
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. (source)
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Before long there was a fluttering of wings, and back came the thrush; and with him came a most decrepit old bird. (source)decrepit = worn out or run down
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In the opinion of Hans Junior, his father was part of an old, decrepit Germany—one that allowed everyone else to take it for the proverbial ride while its own people suffered.† (source)
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Only when she mounts the stage and they ask for volunteers, all you can hear is the wind whistling through the decrepit buildings around her.† (source)
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I went downstairs to the tiny windowless gift shop and asked the decrepit volunteer sitting on a stool behind a cash register what kind of flowers smell the strongest.† (source)
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All life seemed to have ebbed away, and even when the sun shone the day was Shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and old, And she rose up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea.† (source)
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Standing on a golden perch behind the door was a decrepit-looking bird that resembled a half-plucked turkey.† (source)
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For the next thirty minutes Walt and Billie walk quietly around the decrepit vehicle, amble down to the Sushana River, visit the nearby woods.† (source)
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For Sabrina that day I was merely an old woman — an older woman — a nondescript older woman, not yet decrepit enough to be remarkable.† (source)
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When he reached it, he surveyed the entirety of Popcorn Corners: a tavern, a grocery, three equally decrepit houses, a band of feral chickens that lived in the culverts.† (source)
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Some of it was as heartbreaking as it was cliché: decrepit shacks rotting away, stray dogs begging for food, and old furniture strewn on the lawns.† (source)
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lf thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?† (source)
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That was good, the decrepit Devon endeavor.† (source)
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The terrified youngster stood frozen, pointing at the base of the obelisk where a shabby, decrepit drunk sat slumped on the stairs.† (source)
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