Sentence examples for grown shabby from inspiring English sources

Many provincial cities and towns have grown shabby, the factories that sustained them decrepit.

The arcades had grown shabby long before Benjamin came to Paris.

People still like it, and they still use it, but it has grown shabby, beginning to fall apart with Mr. Espada's political fortunes.

The old rug and the old curtains, which had grown shabby even by the standards of a city where well-worn objects are badges of pride, have been replaced by handsome new ones.

The trick, of course, is to make a developer's dream dropped into the middle of an existing landscape (downtown Glendale, once a boomtown, has lately grown shabby) feel appealing enough for shoppers to put down their credit cards and even more important, for residents to put down roots.

Yet even if the apartment has grown shabbier, its value has soared.

Over time, storefronts also grew shabby.

The city, which began eyeing redevelopment after the area grew shabby, rezoned much of the core and in 2009 bought up 6.9 acres, granting a 10-year lease to Central Amusements.

So it went in Clayton, which nudges the St . LawrenceRiver, where businesses shut, houses grew shabby and the streets fell eerily quiet, longtime residents say, as vacationers deserted the town.

A popular crash pad for Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac, who according to some historical accounts, wrote part of "Desolation Angels" in a room there, the Marlton in later years served as a dorm for the nearby New School, during which time it grew shabby.

Ms. Dailey told me her story in the freezing living room of the house on Merrill Avenue, which no longer has a working furnace and is growing shabbier by the day.