Example sentences for: run-down

How can you use “run-down” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Grand but run-down buildings, with fading flamingo-pink and lime-green façades and ornate columns, flank a raised promenade of laurels, gas lamps, and marble benches.

  • The run-down feel of the apartment blocks is still present, but they’re now mixed with a cluster of elegant shops and several smart bars and restaurants.

  • A few hundred boisterous Texans--mostly men, middle-aged or above, with a fair number of angry young rednecks and dotty old women--filled the cramped banquet room of a run-down motor lodge in "downtown" Kilgore.

  • New York's old buildings are gracious and charming, even those that are run-down.

  • In general, this section of Manzanillo is quite run-down, having never recovered from damage caused by a 1995 earthquake.


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