How To Use Run-down In A Sentence

Had such a nice time, it was really charming in a slightly run-down way and on a beautiful little lake called Stoney Lake. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
In spite of the run-down facilities, the ma-and-pop owners and the friendliest and most approachable people in Hong Kong.
With a screeching halt, the driver stepped on the brake just in front of the run-down apartment building that Adrian now called home.
He began to slow down as his surroundings began to grow more familiar, and soon he found that his feet had taken him home, to the small, run-down apartment building where he and Lyra lived.
Apart from still being extremely tired and run-down, there is also so much to be done.

Everyone in this line looks tired, run-down, and much too old.
There is a rather run-down amusement park with roller-coasters, a tower restaurant, and a dolphinarium presently under reconstruction.
Hell, viruses could replicate all the livelong day inside the run-down motel that is my body as long as they didn't produce any symptoms.
There is no escape from violence in either sphere, no pastoral alternative to the bleakness of the run-down city.
Rachel is napping on her couch in the middle of her run-down apartment.
Here is a run-down on their qualities and, more importantly, their chances of featuring in the tournament.
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Government will commission the best designers, artists and architects, for instance, to help communities transform run-down city centres.
Underneath the kind of baldfaced clock you see in train stations were two run-down pay phones; there was something sad about the glaring outdatedness of them. The Guardian World News
The district is a run-down clump of ugly apartment blocks and unpaved streets.
A sharp run-down in the business would be a devastating blow to the local economy.
They are old, run-down, and don't have gas gauges or odometers.
It has an original fireplace and timber panelling, but is run-down. Times, Sunday Times
I bought a run-down farm house and plan to fix it up.
They were like an old run-down cricket pavilion with bare boards on the floor. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
Tired, fluey and run-down, I wanted to venture out to a restaurant about as much as I wanted to sit through my children's three-hour cartoon video.
The booklet gives you a run-down on the innards of your car engine and at the end, there is a test for your ‘automobile IQ’.
That experience, in the case of Britain, was shared by those who came from former colonies to take up low-paid work and live in run-down areas where they were subjected to both social and institutional discrimination.
But a run-down green site can soon be turned into a silk purse unlike the pig's ears of multi-storey apartments the developers are now erecting around York suburbs.
Towering over the run-down streets of Hawaiian Gardens, the casino sports a 10-foot-high volcano that smolders and periodically spits out fire.
But in general, India's infrastructure is as creaking and run-down as ever.
The district hospital was built to replace the 220-year-old city infirmary in Fisherton Street, the geriatric unit at Newbridge and run-down buildings at Odstock.
Specialized in environmentally sustainable commercial and residential interiors, designer Jessica Helgerson took the challenge of remodeling a once run-down split-level ranch house, into a mid-century modern residence. Mountain and Ocean: Sea Ranch Residence
You are not simply ill, run-down or hungover: you are unable to produce, and because you are unable to produce, you are not a man.
Young Greek chefs have been opening restaurants in seedy run-down industrial neighborhoods. Archive 2007-11-01
Standing on the table was a run-down clock.
a run-down watch
He's always ordering stuff for that run-down old Chevy pickup of his - things like chrome wheelguards, bedliners, Jeff Gordon mudflaps, and those ‘Bad Boy’ rear-window decals.
Not to mention exposure to staph infections in your run-down state. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
The houses were run-down, with peeling paint and broken windows, the glass still littering the ground.
So we'd laugh and smoke our pipes, and laugh again, sitting in the old run-down barn.
Being quick studies helped the couple transform a small, run-down house into a cheerful, colorful home.
It found a crack of discontentment and niggled away at it, and in the sleepy village of Worsthorne, three miles from the deprived and run-down central housing estates of Burnley, it found a response.
The distant fading signals a run-down age of degenerate belief.
I'd like to buy a run-down cottage that I can do up.
The area is very studenty and run-down. Times, Sunday Times
If doctors and nurses go from the rural sector then farmers and workers will follow, and that will mean a run-down of our productive sector.
The bare stage and black backdrop are occasionally relieved by smoky atmospherics that evoke perhaps a run-down dance hall in a beachy part of town.
More recently, in Canada at least, it is associated with cheap and dirty accommodation (such as fleabag motels and run-down rooming), as well as with prostitution and other disreputable or illegal activities. The Big Apple
Four of Manchester's communities want the chance to transform neglected and run-down park areas into something everyone in the community can enjoy.
Initially, the rapid run-down of agriculture allowed employment to rise in line with the capital stock.
Ever wondered how the NHS struggles by in the grotty, run-down and ultimately grim areas of this country?
This promised a fate worse than death: if not entryism by extremist groups, then a withdrawal into a run-down citadel from which insults, but nothing more attractive, would be hurled at the outside world.
They are more likely to go to poorly funded schools in run-down buildings, and more likely to be taught by uncertified and poorly trained teachers.
Far from doing himself any favours, however, his ineptitude kicks off a war between the Axe Gang and the inhabitants of Pig Sty Alley, a run-down shanty town that provides a surprising home to some kung-fu legends.
Body shape than the original expansion to grow more than a foot, the most run-down self-loading pistols , old self-loading pistol action, not near it, you simply can not see.
The organisation specialises in lending for neglected properties, run-down buildings which can be renovated or converted for new use and energy-efficient new homes built ecologically.
It was just a run-down house that should be closed off, not some haunted looking mansion where normally nobody would step foot in.
Standing on the table was a run-down clock.
Named after the run-down apartment building the band was eventually evicted from, The Lawrence Arms give us straight-up, Midwestern punk rock.
I was told that the more run-down the town, the better the music and spareribs.
We were well isolated from the run-down neighborhoods and troubled conditions of the city.
In 1998, it was declared a Housing Renewal Area, where run-down zones are improved through renovation and clearance.
Out here in Dallas, we have things like horses, old run-down schoolhouses, and beautiful churches that make the buildings around them look like they were built by school children.
Claes said Sizarail had taken over a run-down rail network and brought it up to an efficient one, with a contract that should have continued to 2000, with a mandate to improve the network, increase traffic and prepare for a "patrimonial" system. ANC Daily News Briefing
It tells the owner of the development that by gentrifying a run-down area of the city, their speculative accumulation actually has a positive, even indispensable social role.
In the four to five hours from the urban maze of San Cristóbal de Las Casas to the run-down precincts of the blight of Palenque Village one drives through extraordinary environmental changes from high mountain alpine forests to coffee and banana plantations to low lying and indescribably beautiful tropical jungles and witnesses ancient ruins at Toniná and Palenque and then can circle back through what just a few years ago was uninviting and difficult to access forest homes of the Lacandon or their ancestors and visit such magnificent places as Yaxchilan and Bonampak and see crystal clear cascades and azure pools and colorful sparkling lakes and then continue on through mountainous jungles which must be seen to be believed to the point that the scenery is overwhelming and then, in time, you are back in beautiful San Cristóbal and you have not even begun to experience this magnificnt Chiapas but it´s a damn good beginning. The Chicken Bus Always Stops Near Aguacatenango
Eddie, an engineer by trade, started building his ‘castle’ when the run-down semi attached to his house went on the market.
This was the beginning of the 20-year cycle, buying run-down catering businesses and building them into success stories.
In poor and more run-down areas there is more racial mixing, and working-class whites, blacks and coloureds are increasingly living in the same areas.
Mark was not surprised to see that the inside of the building was as run-down as the outside.
A project to turn a run-down area of Kendal into a haven for disabled people has got the support of the town council.
Jake quickly crossed the street in front of the small run-down 7-11 on Main Street and ran in before the cold air had the chance to nip at his nose.
Chancery Lane (+44 (0)1308 426876, thestabledorset.co.uk)On a seafront esplanade below West Weares cliff, this curious boat-shaped cafe was custom-built to replace a run-down public toilet (there are still ladies and gents at either end) but don't let that put you off – the view of Chesil beach from Quiddles' rooftop sun terrace is one of the best on the Jurassic coast. West Dorset's top 10 budget eats
Adults, particularly older ones or those with a run-down immune system, can however also contract shingles (herpes zoster) from a child with chickenpox.
Those times I find myself ready to snap at my son for nothing, feeling run-down and tired, overwhelmed.
Visitors entered a run-down building in a downscale neighborhood to discover what appeared to be a decrepit, abandoned reptile zoo.
Sadly this defines the recent history of Bradford whereby a once-bustling, thriving city has slipped into a dreadful, run-down, empty and soulless place in terminal decline.
Specialized in environmentally sustainable commercial and residential interiors, designer Jessica Helgerson took the challenge of remodeling a once run-down split-level ranch house, into a mid-century modern residence. Mountain and Ocean: Sea Ranch Residence
The managing director arrived at the company in 1999 as part of a team that had bought a run-down business which had been making losses for five years.
Away from the gleaming skyscrapers, China's cities are ringed by run-down shacks, with festering heaps of garbage by the roadside.
That run-down in Commonwealth money for housing has forced the states into privatisation by stealth because it's forced them to sell off public housing stock and run down the supply right around the country.
But the reality for working class people was run-down estates and insecurity.
These are the obvious reasons for feeling tired or run-down, but for many female athletes, they aren't the only ones.
`The run-down, telegraphic if you can, so there's time for your - and maybe my - comments. MURKY SHALLOWS
I gazed malevolently at the dreary, run-down apology of a holiday town and wished myself somewhere else.
The former Scout leader, who made his fortune revamping properties in run-down areas, was outraged when he received a fine for not paying a £5 congestion charge on a business trip to London.
The building in the flesh is so run-down that the desire to restore it seems both heroic and quixotic: an act justified only by perfect faith.
I've said more than once in the last few months that I've been feeling tired and run-down and, now that things may be coming to a head, I thought I'd write a little bit more about what has been going on.
Visitors entered a run-down building in a downscale neighborhood to discover what appeared to be a decrepit, abandoned reptile zoo.
In Forks, at the foot of the Olympic National Park, there are run-down trailer parks on the edges of the town, inhabited by "brushpickers," mostly Guatemalan, who make a tenuous living by scavenging in the woods for the moss, ferns, beargrass, and salal used by florists around the world to add greenery to bouquets. American Pastoral
At his St Thomas's gym, on the run-down hill on Wincobank, world-class boxers spar among a small band of waifs and strays aged from five to 50.
The Block, a grid of run-down houses that is a virtual no-go area for people who do not live there, is notorious for heroin dealers trading openly in a park next to the railway tracks.
It's all very well for old fogies, with their pensions and their paid-up mortgages, to wander ghost-like about their business in a tatty, run-down town, resisting change.
But while cleaning up Chester's run-down home, which Leonard has inherited, they make a grim discovery: Buried beneath the floorboards is a trunk containing a small skeleton and kiddie porn magazines. Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About
What about sorely-needed education and health policies to restore the badly run-down public systems?
But when a run-down circus arrives in town to give its last performance, Joe discovers kindred spirits in its collection of dreamers and misfits.
We had a room on the top floor of a very run-down two-storey building. Times, Sunday Times
Here's a run-down on/of the activities of our ten biggest competitors.
Dispersal means refugees get dumped in run-down housing areas with no proper facilities and support.
We need to concentrate resources on the most run-down areas.
Given the increasingly run-down nature of these command economies, the oil price shocks dealt a crucial blow to regimes running an already bankrupt economic system.
This modern oriel window is part of a renovation to a run-down derelict house in the London Borough of Hackney, and it was designed by Platform 5 Architects. Fake Window – Bright Blind
Like most early projects, it replaced an area of run-down, overcrowded, squalid dwellings on the fringes of the downtown area.
They were like an old run-down cricket pavilion with bare boards on the floor. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
But a run-down green site can soon be turned into a silk purse unlike the pig's ears of multi-storey apartments the developers are now erecting around York suburbs.
Householders living in one of the most run-down areas of west Hull are being offered deals worth tens of thousands of pounds to help them move.
He ran a sunbed shop in a run-down area of Wigan and would pull up outside in the car. The Sun
Residents have complained that the area has become run-down, suffers at the hands of thugs intent on joyriding and burglary.
The modernish interiors remodelling project by Jessica Helgerson Specialized in environmentally sustainable commercial and residential interiors, designer Jessica Helgerson took the challenge of remodeling a once run-down split-level ranch house, with bright and airy great rooms into a mid-century modern residence. Mountain and Ocean: Sea Ranch Residence
Along the seafront bargain carpet shops and run-down cafés sit in the basement of what were once beautiful Victorian terraces. Times, Sunday Times
Most people I know, who say they are vegetarians/vegans have very pale skin, little muscle mass, and are always tired, run-down, and lethargic.
We arrived at the toilet cubicle which was a run-down little shack made of bricks, with a smaller room the size of an outhouse in which was the actual dunny.
France was on alert yesterday for a possible upsurge of violence as the country headed into a long holiday weekend, two weeks after rioting broke out in a run-down suburb of the capital.
I plant a finger on the road map and determine their union will occur in the dusty border town of Calexico, measuring one part international flair with two parts run-down crumminess. The Making of Toro
That part of the city is a wilderness of run-down houses and derelict factories.
The modernish interiors remodelling project by Jessica Helgerson Specialized in environmentally sustainable commercial and residential interiors, designer Jessica Helgerson took the challenge of remodeling a once run-down split-level ranch house, with bright and airy great rooms into a mid-century modern residence. Mountain and Ocean: Sea Ranch Residence
He said this showed the system was slow and didn't adequately recognise the impact commercial development can have in regenerating run-down areas.
We're completely run-down and need a thorough rest.
A small, slightly run-down craft barreled through the small opening, then leveled out quickly a few hundred yards above the ground.
The white pebbledash house is one of a series of run-down semis, strung along one side of the typical south Leeds street, which are mainly owned by Asian families.
I bought a run-down farm house and plan to fix it up.
The whole district is in a terribly run-down state.
A multi-million pound chance to improve run-down housing areas in Rochdale was unveiled by the Government on Wednesday.
Adults, particularly older ones or those with a run-down immune system, can however also contract shingles (herpes zoster) from a child with chickenpox.
A run-down publisher's life is getting away from him.
He experienced a deeply weird upbringing, living with his mother and many stepfathers in a run-down trailer.
When Sheri started feeling tired and run-down, she realized she needed to make changes to improve the quality of her life.
Presumably some growth could have started before closure on a run-down line, but it would have been very small.
In poor and more run-down areas there is more racial mixing, and working-class whites, blacks and coloureds are increasingly living in the same areas.
I'd like to buy a run-down cottage that I can do up.
In some ways being diagnosed with pneumonia is a relief, because I was feeling really run-down and sort of fuzzily disconnected from all the stories I want to write. Mrissa: Not actually dragged behind a truck.
Towering over the run-down streets of Hawaiian Gardens, the casino sports a 10-foot-high volcano that smolders and periodically spits out fire.
He'd gotten emancipated minor status at seventeen and rented a small, run-down place.
The whole district is in a terribly run-down state.
The run-down ones stand out stark and skeletonized, yet still meaningful and inspirited like the collected rocks of Stonehenge and the exposed walls of Indian ruins.
The elegantly run-down synagogue evoked an archaic or abandoned temple from a nearly forgotten age.
As Akhundov showed Reiss the run-down, architecturally eclectic mansions of a century earlier, the guide rhapsodized in beautiful phrasing.
When the charity bought it, the run-down dwelling was being refurbished with modern Spanish patio tiles and plasterboard walls.
Standing on the table was a run-down clock.
It's often artists who are the pathfinders, opening up studios and galleries in run-down districts.
In some ways being diagnosed with pneumonia is a relief, because I was feeling really run-down and sort of fuzzily disconnected from all the stories I want to write. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
The men were hiding in an abandoned theater in a run-down part of the city.
Our first impressions were that it seemed a very run-down and poor city with an abundance of homeless people.
In its depiction of a rather run-down and seamy side of New Jersey, it threatens to be taken seriously.
Homeowners in run-down areas are turning down a free offer of new houses.
a run-down neighborhood

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