Sentence examples for shabby condition from inspiring English sources

It was too good not to buy, but they were too daunted by its shabby condition to take it on.

Aside from the shabby condition — it is clearly the poorer northern cousin of Wollman Rink — the city's stringent rules for public pools can be irritating.

Next day you go over to Christie's interiors sale and buy a     baby-grand piano, shabby condition but tony provenance, let's say it graced the     entry hall of some or other Vanderbilt's Gold Coast classic six.

A large white flight took place, and Ebbets Field's shabby condition and lack of parking spaces led to the loss of fans who relocated to Long Island.

Lauren Greenfield, who for 15 years has tracked the exporting of the American dream and now the foreclosure crisis all over the world, contributed a photo of two homes sitting side by side, one for sale in shabby condition, the other with a verdant lawn.

Mr. Hanson said an increasing number of travelers had expressed discontent about shabby conditions at hotels on comment cards left in guest rooms and in reviews on travel Web sites, and that was a major factor prompting hotels to act.

WASHINGTON, March 2 — President Bush has ordered a top-to-bottom investigation into the medical care available to returning veterans, the White House said today, a day after the firing of the two-star general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center over shabby conditions there.

"Thus," he continued, "the concept of perestroika was born, not merely of internal shame and exasperation at empty shops and shabby conditions, but of an external recognition that their chief ideological competitor, under Reagan's leadership, was far more formidable and durable than they had supposed".

Shabby living conditions wouldn't have bothered Kendall in the old days.

And they're well aware of the $86 billion backlog in road repairs -- a recent study found that shabby road conditions costs an annual $324 per driver.

An 1831 account from Juliette Kinzie noted the unkempt conditions as "shabby" and "unpromising".