run-down

How to use run-down in a sentence

Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.

The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERAJOHN H. SWABY (AKA "SCRICI")

I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.

But, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.

As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.

The volcanic eruptions of the mountains on the west broke down its barriers, and let its waters flow.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985