Sentence examples for it is run down from inspiring English sources
It is run down and full of rebellious and even criminally-minded young people.
It's this kind of shift where the rich people are coming in and colonizing it, and it is poor, it is run down, so there's this whole kind of edgy urban hipster culture that's artificially imposed by places like the cereal café so that it's somehow desirable and edgy and cool to live in an area that otherwise people like that wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
Lloyds is expected to use the cash to underwrite loans it is running down in Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain.
For reasons that are hard to articulate, some of us preferred Brixton when, as a recent Esquire article sensitively recalled, it was "run down and only famous for its prison".
There were, in Van Gogh's words, "excessively electric discussions", from which both men sometimes emerged "with tired minds, like an electric battery after it's run down".
"From my point of view I want the security of a contract somewhere, but it's run down now at Norwich.
If your website isn't receiving the love it needs or if it's run down, not cared for and shabby your potential customers won't stay around long.
My home is run down, but it's not broken..
In the whisker-oriented virtual reality, the walls move to give the mouse the illusion that it is running down winding corridors, he says.
All of this can only lead to one of two conclusions: either Royal Mail management is grossly incompetent, or it is running down the company on purpose, for some end that the rest of us have yet to be informed about.
