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How to use down-at-heel in a sentence

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Had I gone at 17 I have no doubt I would have been staying in a down-at-heel guest house.
The rattling, down-at-heel, overcrowded buildings pleased me better than any grassy quad or lancet window.
Alex Wilson, who worked for Nugget when he first came to the Centre, was a short man, 1.6 metres tall with his down-at-heel boots on.
Now he lives in Maryland, a teeming, traffic-choked and down-at-heel suburb of Africa's largest city, Lagos.
Take Sasha and Lena, a young couple living in a typically down-at-heel housing estate on the outskirts of Moscow.
But a far larger slice of her area is in Oakland, the down-at-heel industrial city overshadowed by San Francisco across the bay.
That down-at-heel seaside town decided in 1977 that gambling would be its salvation.
Like Blackpool or Brighton, Coney Island has that down-at-heel atmosphere of a resort whose time has gone.
In the film, Reeves plays a luckless, down-at-heel gambler heavily in debt to the bookies.
A bunch of largely down-at-heel passengers, who had got off with us, searched for a lift that was working.
As always these days, Clint's character, a down-at-heel boxing trainer, is old and past it.
Craig and Craig is a bold building both inside and out forging a new initiative in what is essentially a shabby and down-at-heel area.
There is not a plush boutique or trendy bar to be seen, and the architecture is down-at-heel.
Britain's inner city chroniclers are more chip shop than champagne, but this down-at-heel feel has more of an edge.
If that conjures up an image of a rather down-at-heel East End hall, then think again.
Vince Vaughn is Peter, a likeable slacker who runs the down-at-heel Average Joe's Gym.
It is just the kind of place where drunks, junkies and the down-at-heel find a warm spot to spend the night.
Today Tesco and Sainsbury's local stores are helping to bring up some down-at-heel neighbourhoods.
The loss of 550 jobs in the down-at-heel Kent seaside town, reducing Hornby to a suite of administrative offices and an echoingly empty factory shed, was a bitter blow.
Gone is the old and somewhat down-at-heel air of the theatre of yesterday.
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Most of these haciendas, at any rate those deep in the country, have a very shabby and down-at-heel appearance.
There were two or three buckeens in the hall, and Darby and one of the down-at-heel serving-boys were laying the evening meal.
She looked complacently down at her stubby little feet in their down-at-heel beaded slippers.
Her bedroom slippers were still so new and pretty that it was impossible to picture them down-at-heel.
Our man is a down-at-heel psychic who's become a kind of paranormal messenger service for ghosts wanting to commune with their loved ones.
The millions saved by doing that could be spent on our down-at-heel schools and our children's future.
She stars as a shy young woman adrift in New York who is spotted by a boozy, down-at-heel talent scout.
A Star Ferry across Hong Kong Harbour to catch the cheap but delicious Chinese food stalls in bustling and down-at-heel Kowloon.
A number of areas in the region are looking particularly down-at-heel and any initiative to counter this is to be welcomed.
Its latter days were dreary, down-at-heel, and disreputable enough.
What a tousled-haired, down-at-heel, out-at-elbows Clerkenwell exile!
In the house he wore slippers, which seemed always old and down-at-heel.
It certainly shouldn't be Eyesore Central, a down-at-heel and thoroughly miserable and depressing stretch of road.
Elsewhere, the down-at-heel Plumbers Arms, just yards from Huddersfield Bus Station, is getting a proper makeover by property developer Mark Robertson.
It was a converted carpet store in a down-at-heel West Palm Beach neighborhood.
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