The old, decrepit house was deemed unsafe and had to be torn down.    From LearnThat.org. 

Located in decrepit strip malls, strewn with broken glass outside, parents walked their toddlers into these small, overheated spaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mimi Carter: Rhee Got Results, but Will They Last?] Reference

I was looking at him, thinking, this is probably the least "decrepit" 78 year old person I have met in my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Wald: Archbishop Tutu: Bravo, Your Excellency] Reference

This is the owner, some kind of decrepit aristocrat, as flea-bitten as the dog you see snuffling about in the garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Woebegone « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

In the pilot, the program's editors made sure to include the younger contestants referring to the older competitors as "decrepit" and "pathetic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Martha M. Lauzen: Reality Showing its Age] Reference

“Hey, watch who you’re calling decrepit,” Tran growled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malice] Reference

Serbia unhappy with 'decrepit' hotel offered for its World Cup base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Next year, there will be another ribbon cutting for the next phase of the park - a playground where "decrepit" buildings now stand, city administrator Craig Malin said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"decrepit" 78 year old person I have met in my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

And I assure you whatsoever he was among you, he is here a kind of decrepit young gentleman and terribly crest-fallen.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Marvell]

The building is decrepit, its doors rusted halfway open.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking From The Poor] Reference

Today the boat sits idle at the end of a decrepit government pier.    From Wordnik.com.  [An African Big Man In Trouble] Reference

Weeds grow out of broken concrete alongside the decrepit swimming pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reassessing the Boom] Reference

This time, as he had the time before, he spoke of feeling old and decrepit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Wald: Archbishop Tutu: Bravo, Your Excellency] Reference

 The one's housed in decrepit 19thcentury townhouses, painted blue or pink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphrodite in Ruins] Reference

They need every vote they can get no matter how decrepit the mind of the voter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Herrington: A Message Washington Will Hear] Reference

The director's apartment was in a decrepit building, right over a mannequin shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Me And Igi And The Fickle Finger Of Fame] Reference

Having made it to New York the family moved into a decrepit tenement on Broome Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward P. Kohn: "We're Having a Heat Wave"] Reference

They make our crumbling air facilities look like the decrepit bus transfer stations they are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denis Campbell: We're Screwed, Not Even in the Right Game] Reference

Across the country, thousands of acres of land are tied up in disputes over decrepit edifices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

She took Little Old One to her vet, who pronounced him the most decrepit rabbit he'd ever seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down the Rabbit Hole] Reference

I don't want to if I'm going to be decrepit, what about energy levels?, the happiness factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerit Quealy: Aging is Old Hat] Reference

At a word from Putin, Deripaska took over and revived not only decrepit factories but entire industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘There Will Be Bankruptcies’] Reference

In the early '90s, the VA was viewed as decrepit, ineffective and a poor way to treat the nation's war heroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [GET READY TO GET WIRED] Reference

The decrepit former apartment building offers recent arrivals from all over the world the city's cheapest beds.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Hot In Hong Kong] Reference

Now U.S. officials are worried also about the increasingly decrepit state of America's own nuclear-weapons complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [NUCLEAR OFFENSE] Reference

Several days later, a lawyer for the shipowner climbed aboard the decrepit ship disguised as a Chinese border guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Pirates Still Sail] Reference

These workers operate a fleet of out-dated, decrepit trucks because it is all they can afford on their meager wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [James P. Hoffa: Put an End to Sweatshops on Wheels] Reference

The distraught Nina broods unconsolably in her decrepit flat with its yucky brown water, buckling walls and toddling rats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghostest With The Mostest] Reference

Homogenized Atlanta is the capital of today's South, not beautiful, decrepit New Orleans or joyously antiquated Charleston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Charm] Reference

The eccentric pair lived in a decrepit 28-room East Hampton, N.Y., mansion with no running water but swarms of cats and raccoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fabulous: It's 'Grey Gardens,' Again] Reference

Think about replacing crowded streets and decrepit playgrounds with paths for pedestrians and bicycles, winding between wide lawns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toppling Towers] Reference

In the West Bank, Arafat will initially get limited control only over Jericho, a decrepit little town near the lowest spot on earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signing On The Dotted Line] Reference

The eccentric pair lived in a decrepit 28-room East Hampton, New York, mansion with no running water but swarms of cats and raccoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Last spring he warned Congress that so much of the nuclear complex was decrepit that "we're faced with ... a crisis in the facilities.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

But today, the country's infrastructure is so decrepit that the regime cannot adequately exploit its own resources without outside help.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's the Oil and Gas, Stupid] Reference