DECREPITUDE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for DECREPITUDE, such as:
1. The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty.
2. All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness.
2. All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness.
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Meanings and Examples of DECREPITUDE
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decrepitude
n. state of collapse caused by illness or old age
Classic Sentence:
1 The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty.
2 All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness.
3 The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude; and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head.
Example Sentence:
1 I was unprepared for the state of decrepitude in which I had found my old friend; he seemed to have aged twenty years in six months.