Sentence examples for seemed run from inspiring English sources

He seized power in 1969 and dominated Libya with a regime that often seemed run by his whims.

Mr. Weiner, who prides himself on his dapper appearance and physical fitness, was losing weight, seemed run down and drawn and increasingly found it difficult to make it through telephone calls without losing his composure.

Al Kazeem seemed run one race too many on fast ground, and now seems a more likely runner in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in early October, when there is usually some cut, than the Champion Stakes at Ascot two weeks later.

The facility seemed run-down, chintzy, low-tech.

During one meeting in 2008, Ms. Lauren said, he seemed run-down; he was fighting off a sinus infection he had developed because he had been traveling for three straight weeks.

Mr. Hochlerin showed them some apartments that seemed run-down, but they soon found a large renovated one-bedroom in a walk-up on West 81st Street, a block plied by a crosstown bus.

His romance with Chelsea had, it seemed, ran its course.

"When I first got here, the town seemed run-down and kind of shady over by the prison," she tells me.

It doesn't seem run by ideologues.

For example, does the barn seem run down or in danger of falling apart?

Persistence, it seems, runs in the family.