Sentence examples for become run-down from inspiring English sources

Another customer added: "It's become run-down over the years and it needs a new approach.

New Cassel will "need to take care of what we have and take pride in what the finished product is looking like," he said, or it could become "run-down again".

Mrs. Clinton's attack on this point appears to have been prompted by an article last year in The Chicago Sun-Times, which said that the buildings had become run-down and that some residents went without heat for several weeks one winter.

Although law no longer dictates racial segregation, Connolly says dilapidated properties owned by slum landlords still dot the nation's inner cities, added to the many suburbs that, through speculation, have become run-down; the recent predatory lending crisis has resulted in more people losing property.

I've noticed in past years that people become run-down during the holiday weeks and fall ill.

When Robert Grosvenor (later the 1st Marquess) inherited the estate at the beginning of the 19th century, it had become run-down.

Before too long they became run-down and dangerous places.

Even before the water crisis hit, the once bustling auto town had become run down and dangerous.

By the time Ms. Foley joined the club, however, the theater had become run down, with a collapsing stage floor, an old-fashioned light board and a faded set of velvet curtains.

And what may have truly pushed mindfulness into the mainstream are its antidotal properties in the arena of today's most prevalent societal challenge: The fear of missing out, or "FOMO". For Sheila, floundering was an understatement, as FOMO often caused her to become run down and even sick.

The area had been neglected by the Chicago Park District and become run down.