run-down
Example Sentences
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Upgrading the country’s run-down oil infrastructure is likely to take years and carries significant uncertainty, he says.
It sat run-down and vacant until 2019, when a campaign to revitalize it gained steam.
From Los Angeles Times
It lurks in the halls of famed institutions and the parking lots of dreary, run-down wharfs.
From Salon
The town of about 3,500 inhabitants used the law to advance a decade-old scheme of purchasing run-down homes from residents, before withdrawing it after media criticism.
From Barron's
In an old, neo-gothic building in Fort, an upmarket area in India's financial capital Mumbai, is a run-down office that produces one of country's oldest and most prominent Parsi magazines - Parsiana.
From BBC
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