| 1. | As a decrepit father takes delight. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | On our way, an exceedingly decrepit old man moved slowly toward us, with a perfectly blank look on his face, but still appearing as if he wished to speak. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | Therefore, why not wait in ambush for Conrad behind the door, and when he entered bring down a chair, or one of the decrepit pictures, smartly on to his head. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 5. | The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old rusty knocker. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | Surveyor Pue, and from whose oral testimony he had made up his narrative, remembered her, in their youth, as a very old, but not decrepit woman, of a stately and solemn aspect. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 8. | Then, having taken another look round, I returned to my carriage, where I found that the porter, in spite of the ticket, had given me my decrepit Italian friend as a traveling companion. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |