Sentence examples for slightly run down from inspiring English sources

Condo and his wife, Anna, a film-maker, and their daughters, Eleonore, twenty, and Raphaelle, sixteen, live in a rented, slightly run down, but still elegant town house on the Upper East Side.

From the outside, it looks like any other Los Angeles mini-mall in a slightly run down area.

She and her husband saved more than $1500 a month by staying in their slightly run down rental which cost around $900 a month versus the $2500 or more for nicer digs.

The place was charming & only slightly run-down.

We had jumped off the tourist trail to camp on a slightly run-down estancia on the pampas of Patagonian Chile.

"I think it isn't unusual to feel slightly run-down after a long-haul flight but there was always an outside possibility that it was something more sinister than common or garden flu," he told BBC Breakfast.

At first the two shared a huge, slightly run-down flat in an old building in West Berlin's bohemian borough of Schöneberg, then and now home to a large gay community.

The building next door to the Shrine in this slightly run-down part of LA is the 32nd Street school carries a bold injunction to its students on one wall: "live, learn, recycle".

Mr. Cruz began acting violently and left the rectory at age 17, finding his way eventually to a quiet, slightly run-down street in Schenectady, where he is living with his wife and four of his five children.

Maloney focussed on Asbury Park because it was a "distinctly working-class, nonaffluent, semi-urban, slightly run-down beach town, with a music culture and a vibrant street life".

Chapter 3: The Pakistan connection The office is grey and slightly run-down, set back off a busy thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, the seething city in the centre of Pakistan's northern plains.