Run Down

True, it may not be Versailles, but it beats the name of a run-down local establishment! ❋ Jodi Picoult (2011)

Knowing this loving family I spent the day with had to sleep in a run-down van messed me up. ❋ Mark Horvath (2011)

Dozens of run-down warehouses or empty lots were soon plastered with building permits. ❋ Laura Kusisto (2011)

I knew what she loved about him the night she took me to his run-down three-family on the dark side of a Cleveland ❋ Jill Bialosky (2011)

The salvage yard sat in the middle of a run-down residential street, but it was no small place. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

The old blue Oldsmobile in which they sat had been payment to Vin for a debt owed, and as run-down and ugly as it looked, it was the perfect getaway car since it was built for speed. ❋ Suzanne Corso (2011)

It was she who found the name and address of the all-night establishment with the sickest band or most hilarious karaoke scene or best barbecue, known only to the most knowledgeable locals, in exotically run-down parts of town where cab-drivers had to be excessively tipped to take them. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

They meet to have anonymous, no-strings-attached sex in a mostly unfurnished, run-down apartment. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I pull up to Barney's "triple-decker," a somewhat run-down example of the three-floored apartment buildings that make up much of Boston's older housing stock. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

One day he waited after school in his run-down Pontiac and she came home with her eye bruised and a pair of garnet earrings in her ears. ❋ Jill Bialosky (2011)

Some weeks later, Tim Kosnoff banged on the door of a run-down apartment in Portland. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

The former workhouse in the Fitzrovia neighborhood — most recently part of a hospital that closed in 2005 — is one of hundreds of run-down Georgian and Victorian buildings that Londoners pass without a second glance. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Horley Barton Space Station, as befitted such an out-of-the-way place, was more than a little run-down, outdated, and lax in security. ❋ Christie Golden (2011)

And much of it was trucked to Mr. Coyne's rock-crushing operation behind a tall gray fence in a run-down industrial section of Newark. ❋ Andrew Grossman (2011)

In Saturday's Post, pop music critic Chris Richards wrote about the "secret jazz" of Washington's noisy, run-down Metro escalators. ❋ Post (2011)

It gives a run-down of the schematics and expectations people should have for the game as follows: ❋ Unknown (2009)

The desolation, she continued, evokes certain things for certain audiences—"the opposite of luxury, the opposite of color, the opposite of comfort"—and creates a charged dynamic with the settings in the story-telling, such as a kitchen in Thomas's run-down home, a small-town cheesecake shop, and a dance hall. ❋ Lizzie Simon (2011)

Vigoda was a hit as a run-down, mopey, and almost retired detective. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The neighborhood was home to low-income housing complexes, bars in strip malls, and a couple of churches that had moved into formerly run-down buildings. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

"[Run-down] on [Nasti]" "[HELL] YEA" ❋ Gatt Molen (2009)

[Police] have begun to [run down] [parking] violators. ❋ AlCsa (2017)

"I went and spoke to an [advisor] about a superannuation investment but when I saved and deposited the amount-the [savings] went running down wind with the market collapse" "I follow coaches advice and play [wide reciver] for the final play but the opposition always pre-interprets the play making me feel like I'm constantly running down wind"! ❋ Goosebump11 (2011)

Top: [yo wtf] is our [jgl] doing??? Mid: idk prob running down mid lul Support: hes [inting] ❋ The Right Neighborhood (2018)

[Do not] run down the aisle. Think [coolly] before [stepping] into the nuptials. ❋ Uttam Maharjan (2013)

"Hey mom, [would you mind] [running down river] for me?" "Sure what do you want" "Lights". - "Hey man, wanna run down river for some [DK's]?" ❋ Zeesee (2011)

I couldn't [hear] for a [week] after he went "[running down the Eary canal]!" ❋ 6 Navarre Pillow Princesses (2014)

person [one]: [hey]!! me: [RUNNING DOWN MY VAGINA] 😁😁 ❋ Kimfinds (2021)

was [that guy] running down the mass pike naked? ❋ Klicky (2004)

The client wants these chiller pipes installed and all I can do is stand here with [golden syrup] running down my legs. "What's that [cheeky grin] you got on your face mate, you look like you have [golden syrup running down your legs]" ❋ DataDriven (2023)