Sentence examples for shabby state from inspiring English sources

The shabby state of live performance is also forcing change.

The flat is in a grand Victorian terrace but was in a shabby state.

Risky long-term deals helped put the Mets in their shabby state.

But the revival of Madison Square is also a vivid reminder of the shabby state of many of the public parks elsewhere in New York City.

Probably, as she waited for the bus, she drafted letters of resignation in her head, letters that described in withering detail the incompetence of the new middle-school director, or the shabby state of the women's second-floor bathroom.

A restaurant executive who has been briefed on the dispute said that Tishman Speyer had been unhappy with what the executive described as the shabby state of the space under the Ciprianis.

In Sofia, Bout checked into the Park Hotel Moskva, a shabby, state-owned high-rise, and set out for the office of a Bulgarian arms dealer named Peter Mirchev.

The West had imagined East Berlin as the cutting edge of the Soviet empire — the efficient, disciplined, technological, German edge — but East Berlin turned out to be a messy, deteriorating place, a shabby police-state capital not so different from most of the other Eastern-bloc capitals.

Disappointed tourists are unprepared for the shabby and unsalubrious state of la Canebière, its upper reaches inhabited by the homeless, drug addicts and alcoholics, the air in its litter-strewn pavements filled with the stench of urine and beer.

McMullen was so incensed at what he believed was the shabby treatment by state bureaucrats that he threatened to take the club — which he had bought in 1982 and towed from Denver — to Nashville.

Not too shabby considering the state of the economy.