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:

  • The final promenade leading down to the harbor is the short Rambla de Santa Mònica, beginning at the Plaça del Teatre, site of the run-down Teatre Principal.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The once miserable wasteland of run-down warehouses, lumber-mills, factories, and railyards has been reclaimed not only for the upbeat commercial enterprises that are now a familiar feature of any Canadian city with a waterfront, but also as a handsome residential neighborhood.


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