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Usage examples of run-down.

Dockside were the warehouses and ship outfitters, but above them was a section of town that seemed to consist exclusively of brothels, taverns, druggeries and run-down boarding houses.

After maybe five miles down Westmorland, with Malec thinking they must now be heading for Redbird Mall, where the drive-away occurred, they turned into Kiest Boulevard, and thence through the meaner streets of a run-down neighbourhood.

Prosperous citizens moved out to newer parts of town, leaving the run-down older houses for the workers who provided casual labor around the port and the industrial districts.

Cap drove up the Skeel Gulch Road, past quaint homesteads and run-down barns, freshly mowed hay fields, and a huge pond where a moose grazed on water cabbage.

Sanchez, the ancient widow who was rumored to have murdered her husband in a dust storm sixty-two years before, the Perell twins who -- for unknown reasons -- preferred the old run-down church to the spotless and air-conditioned company chapel on the mining reservation, and the mysterious old man with the radiation-scarred face who knelt in the rearmost pew and never took Communion.

If Warren wanted Chinese food, for example, then the run-down carryout on Ingleside was clearly superior to their old favorite on Route 40.

Marshals Taber and Porter stood posted outside as Fagin and Banish entered the run-down barn shaking off their coats.

The Bella Gata Boutique was in what at first appearance seemed to be a run-down part of the city, but the surrounding shops, though drab on the outside, actually housed rather pricey goods.

Harold Gerber lived in a run-down tenement on Seventh Avenue South, around the corner from Carmine Street.

A few terraces of dilapidated houses, some farms in Radnorshire, a modicum of shares in run-down industries.

The cars looked on a level with the run-down area: an aging Pinto, oversized gas guzzlers that had seen better days, and a new Sentra with a rental sticker.

The dusty and sun-faded jeans, the scuff-toed boots with run-down heels and black marks where the spurs usually rode, the worn-soft chambray workshirt, and the sweat-stained cowboy hat on his head, all were the clothes of a working cowboy.

He'd decided a real estate broker could give him a good run-down on the cast of characters in Cleary - and who might not want a movie made here.

The Daltons had barely started rebuilding the run-down ranch when the trouble began.

And afterwards, in a silent car filled with bitterness and unquenched basic needs, we would mistakenly turn off the main highway and get lost and end up in some no-hope hamlet with a name like Draino, Indiana, or Tapwater, Missouri, and get a room in the only hotel in town, the sort of run-down place where if you wanted to watch TV it meant you had to sit in the lobby and share a cracked leatherette sofa with an old man with big sweat circles under his arms.