Sentence examples for increasingly run-down from inspiring English sources

As Grey Gardens became increasingly run-down — in time, it looked like something out of a gothic novel — the neighbors contacted the authorities.

I wanted to take something from this renewal, to be a small part of it, but the truth was that my body was increasingly run-down.

Over the next 14 years I often wondered what consolation this was for the miners and their destroyed communities, patients visiting increasingly run-down hospitals, and pupils attending schools with leaking roofs and rotting window frames, having to share textbooks and other equipment, and worrying about their work prospects.

Four years in a row, Mr. Smith's office has applied and been rejected for a federal grant, to resettle families from the 550 apartments in Mulford Gardens, which, built in the late 1930's, is one of the oldest housing projects in the country and has become increasingly run down and costly to maintain.

Increasingly, city councils (municipalities) see art as key to regenerating run-down areas, so it's also possible to get involved in a host of well-funded initiatives aimed at providing cheap space for creative industries.

Molenbeek has developed a reputation as a troubled, run-down area, and is a hotspot for crime, drugs, and increasingly, jihadists.

Due to the run-down of the Army, the Second Army, always mainly a paper organisation, increasingly had less and less to do.

The nighttime economy contributes enormously to revitalizing run-down areas, which is why it's even more confounding that the authorities are increasingly regulating and restricting activity.

"Run-down," he said.

The building was run-down, with rebar poking through its shell, and, as studios moved to the valley and stars moved to Bel Air and the beach, the neighborhood, too, was becoming increasingly desolate.

It looked run-down.