Sentence examples for rather run-down from inspiring English sources

Handsome if rather run-down, Havana has a scenic waterfront and is surrounded by fine beaches, an attraction for increasing numbers of visitors from abroad.

When they bought a rather run-down Ca'* Poma in 2006 they set about restoring the original beauty of the 300-year-old house.

For the ex-supermarket owner, Gérard Perse, buying a vineyard has been such a dream-come-true that he now owns four estates in Saint-Emilion, including the superbly situated, albeit rather run-down Château Pavie.

Originally built by Oskar Poriska in 1926, it appeared rather run-down, its public restrooms long since gated shut, some of its plaster crumbling, and a touch of graffiti blemishing one wall.

The chapel, on the edge of the village of Martletwy, closed in the early 80s and had become rather run-down until the local community restored it with the aid of lottery money 10 years ago.

The Mandiant report acknowledges that while it has traced assorted cyber-intrusions to servers precisely in the rather run-down district of Pudong where the building occupied by Unit 61398 stands, it cannot be certain they are actually within its walls.

The challenge comes in Inner London areas once thought essentially working class and in parts rather run down moving up and up as prosperity has spread and more middle class people have arrived.

But you see, everyone It dressed impeccably––including me.  .

The Army, we reserves and our U.S.N leaders believed, was a rather loose-jointed and run-down crowd, with a slack attitude toward protocol and vulgar disregard for practicality.

Here, the Mexicans live in run-down apartment complexes rather than in small houses of sun-baked brick.

Rather than running down his operations it appears that in 2006 Shapps was expanding the company.