Sentence examples for is so run from inspiring English sources

Approval has to be ultra-careful because Iraq, up to tricks as always, sneaks in items that could, at best, have a dual use.The troubles continue when the goods reach Iraq, largely because everything there is so run down.

"The country is so run down and so poor that it seems a laugh we're worrying about them starting a war.

But the economy is so run down by decades of war and corruption that it will take many more years, if at all, before the boom benefits most of the population.

A thing is "so" (ran) when its visual appearance (mao) is similar (ruo) to the model (fa) (A70 71).

Whether something is "so" (ran)—that is, whether some term is correctly predicable of it depends on "that which makes it so," in effect the satisfaction conditions for the term.

"It was so run down," Mr. Schwarz said of the neighborhood, "and prostitutes used to hang out by the front door.

When you first read it, you can't imagine that it was set in the future because it's so run down.

"Four years ago the authority said the cottage hospital was so run down it was not fit for purpose," said John Powell, Treasurer of Clevedon Hospital League of Friends.

I was so run down in my own health of course I caught it right away.

By the reign of King Rama IX the building was so run down that the king ordered it to be demolished.

It's designed for a family with a double government or city income… the last place we were in was so run down and full of mold.