Decrepit

Holly Black was born in a decrepit Victorian house in New Jersey.

I have been lying around the house like a decrepit old bag of onions since I broke my leg.

With the police in foot pursuit, Tom ran through the decrepit fence and vaulted over a small car.

Your body will become decrepit, and your brain will refuse to direct it.

I think that his uncle is a decrepit old man.

Gunter's house was dusty and decrepit.

Pietro passed a decrepit barn-like house.

Sorrow is subdued by strong necessity; there is no cause why life should be lengthened for our love; and we feel that the worn and the decrepit do but go down into that grave which had received youth, health, beauty,—all that made existence precious—long before.

Two entrants shared this award for their work on two quite different stations, but with the same purpose of bringing a redundant station building back into use for the benefit of the community, with the added result of conserving an historic building. Saltash Town Council bought Saltash station building after it had become very decrepit and 'an eyesore' - such that it was nearly pulled down to make way for housing.