Sentence examples for slightly run-down from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Indeed, this strip of Queen Street West still has a slightly seedy side, from the run-down diners selling all-day breakfasts to the somewhat startling presence of the live go-go dancer in the storefront window of Misbehav'n (No. 650), an "adult" lingerie and fetish store that seems to have a devoted clientele.

The gills are broadly adnate (broadly attached to the stalk slightly above the bottom of the gill, with most of the gill fused to the stem) to slightly decurrent (running down the length of the stem).