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Sentence Examples I turn the boat and we simply run down the line at an even pace and turn into the fish as we get nearer. It has invested heavily in upgrading the site, after it was run down by its previous owner. At times, these vehicles are found injecting tonnes of black exhausts due to run down engines and poor quality lubricants. Finally they had arrived at a run down tenement that advertised rooms for cheap. With a crowded beach the Coastguards fired a maroon to signal the run down the beach from the Inn to the sea at 11.45am. It still looks to me like vandals because you can see clearly where they have run down the banking. Barely concealed brothels are also there, usually disguised as massage parlours or incredibly run down bars. If you are run down and your immune system is weak, the bacteria that cause thrush may also multiply. She smiled at his playfulness and bit into an apple, tonguing a bit of sweet juice that threatened to run down the side of her lip. These extensions followed on from the government desire to generate development in run down areas of cities and major towns. This time of the year we are besieged with ills and chills, and tend to feel out-of-sorts and a little run down. Then he shot his first 8mm movie, which excited him even more than a dizzying run down a vertiginous ski trail. So I quickly run up stairs and slip on my pink mini, pleated skirt, and my tank top and run down stairs. Twenty-four hours later, as the train slows outside Mogaung, I hop off, run down a dirt road, and leap into the first trishaw I see. Many moons ago, actually about 24 years to the day, I was very nearly run down by a bus. Louise, a normally vibrant 69-year-old woman, returned from vacation feeling run down, nervous, and twitchy. First we'll run down the basic differences between the more common types of beer. The Chief laughed softly, bloodthirstily, and Ravenna felt shivers run down her spine. The run down on this after reading several unclassified military documents on the subject. His stormy gaze swept over all the buildings until it landed on a run down apartment with boarded up windows and crumbling walls. Show More Sentences Pepe's house is an old run down, small cinema with boarded up windows and graffiti adorning the brick walls. On May 12 th he had yet another ailment, probably from being run down and underfed, and missed his class at college due to a sore throat. Regueiro embarks on a lung-bursting run down the left, but his progress is halted by a nasty body-check. I picked candle wax where it had run down the neck of the wine bottle and hardened. I can think of no better reason not to give up, not to run down like an unwound clock. From this region, nerve fibres run down in bundles through the substance of the brain into the brain stem and spinal cord. In the nightcap, it went down to the ninth inning, two out and we're one run down. I thought that when I was farming and going out in the rain I wore a sou'wester with a brim so that the rain would not run down my neck. Cupping her hands into the water, she splashed the water onto her face and let the liquid run down her neck and cool her cheeks. Thick hawthorn hedgerows bursting with new growth run down the edge of John Dunning's pea crop on his farm perched on the Yorkshire Wolds. If you've let the fuel run down to rock bottom very often, you might find your car stalling and sputtering. I run down the hall and open the door of the room, and see Rikki, collapsed on the floor. Do not run down the rear of the leg when nearing the hock as it is easy to cut the hamstring and cause lameness. The maidservant watched as a slow trickle of a thick sticky black substance began to run down the carved panels. We avoided the first obstacle, a gully-bound stream that breaches the cliffs to run down to a stony beach, by following the path inland. As he yells the last part five burly men run down the stairs carrying fully automatic weapons with extended clips. Schools look more decrepit than houses, government offices, strung along the road, so run down you wonder if anybody ever visits them. Such a beautiful girl in such a run down place was surely something he'd not seen. Even at the tender age of nine, I felt a chill of foreboding run down my spine. The house itself was hugely run down but was still used by doctors working at the hospital. Show More Sentences It should not take an investor to tell the city fathers that the roads are run down and full of potholes. He broke out in a cold sweat, feeling the trickles of perspiration run down his clammy face. He imagined he could climb the rock face to the cliff above, run down the path and still get there before her. As a result of some false economies, the physical environment is run down and doctors and nurses have to work in sub-standard facilities. Washing out her blood encrusted hair, she watched the dirty brown stains run down the bath floor, in twisted patterns, that stuck in some places. Miser Jammy, as we all knew, was crabby miserable pinchpenny who lived alone in that wretched run down house on the outskirts of the town. The rain started to run down harder, as the pitter-patter sounds of the showers got even louder. I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The run down clothing, the wild red hair, and a purse made of hide all screamed, cowhand. I was taking a run down the line in the pipe and tell backwards off the wall taking a frontside turn. He says plenty of people want to run down the professionalism and achievements of English teachers and pupils. You obviously have a very demanding training schedule, how do you stop yourself from getting run down? To his left and right, men broke from the packing of their supplies to watch him run down the row, steam puffing from the horse's nostrils. Now the bosses have the audacity to try to deskill the workers at the Central, and to run down factories in the name of modernisation. Over-crowded, run down and dilapidated school buildings must be tackled immediately. It is now 12 years since our rail system was disastrously privatised and allowed to run down. One often sees the police on foot patrol wearing expensive imported gym shoes, which help to run down these pesky robbers. Its roads and health service were once the envy of those living to the south of the border, but have been allowed to run down. The Government thought it was going to deliver the coal by rail, but the railways are so run down that it cannot get it through. The four refineries have been run down under successive administrations and nearly all of the oil is now exported and refined elsewhere. Show More Sentences A man who is taken into servitude to wind the kingdom's clocks, concocts a scheme in which the clocks slowly but imperceptibly run down. Billy Greer returns to his uncle's withy farm after the second world war to find it badly run down. Let's run down the list of the big hype bands that the Brits have spilled a lot of ink on lately. Icelanders are brought up to leap across waterfalls, spring through rivers, run down mountains, run up mountains. He could feel her tears run down his bare torso, and let himself bury his face within her loose, newly dried hair. The four state-owned refineries have been run down and cannot produce enough to meet local demand. Many of Egypt's state-run industries have been privatised, while the country's welfare and education systems have been run down. Spending on education in Bradford has been run down over a number of years. Production at the plant will be run down between now and the end of the year. It would be crazy to run down stocks below the level at which they can be quickly replenished. I seem to get about 12 hours of continuous use before the batteries seem to run down. With all the other systems, I would have to remember to turn off the iPod or it would keep playing and run down the batteries. Old batteries have a diminished capacity to hold power, and they run down very quickly. Her younger sister, Stephanie, was totally enthralled by my torch and doing her best to run down its batteries. It's just that if they upped the speed to 128 kilobits, the thing would get too hot to hold, and the battery would run down in ten minutes. At the meeting fears were voiced that the hospital had been run down over recent years, forcing it to close. Its roads and health service were once the envy of those living to the south of the border, but they have been allowed to run down. Across the mucky yard what can only be described as a run down shed, with a tarpaulin roof and a piece of pallet for a gate, was home to four Alsatians. I walked down the flight of subway stairs cyan Brown had run down on Christmas Eve and tried to imagine the scene. People with joie de vivre are like windup dolls that never run down. Show More Sentences Imagine England playing with a one-goal lead and 86 minutes of the clock to run down and you'll have some idea of how negatively and unadventurously they're being. Look at some of the buildings, run down and no longer fit for purpose. The heat makes beads of sweat run down your armpits and traverse your hips before dampening your drawers. Earlier in the evening, when the Sainsbury's order arrived, I had run down four flights of stairs to collect the groceries, putting the door to the flat on the latch. Bystanders were run down and injured more often than the feudists. I actually have this insatiable urge to organize and it's taking all my willpower not to just run down to the laundry room and wash and fold all the stuff. The children say the playground has been run down over the last decade. I quickly shove past him and run down the sidewalk towards my house. Steve taxied the Lightning and did a fast run down the runway and except for a minor hydraulic problem, pronounced the plane to be in fine condition. They all had that yellowing with age feel that is always represented in the outback Australia images and it felt run down and not entirely friendly. It's shocking the way they let some of these foreign ships run down. A recent surge of activity on the previously run down premises has turned what was an eyesore into up-market style bars and a pub that has live entertainment nightly. His first shows were in Asbury Park, at a small run down Convention Hall that appeared destined for the wrecking ball. Installation was neat and tidy, cables and steering being run down each side of the boat under respective gunwales and thence into the centre console. Instead of a toy boy, she invests in a run down theatre off Shaftsbury Avenue in London's West End and renames it The Windmill, after the street in which it resides. What I like these days about visiting Berlin is the creative tension between the old run down corners and the contemporariness in art, streetlife, architecture. The silent raindrops run down his pale skin like teardrops down a cheek. It kills me when a swimmer who I train gets run down at the end of a race. But I keep letting the batteries run down and don't always have a backup. In one of these alternate universes, I was run down at Southdale on Monday afternoon by two juvies hotrodding diagonally through the middle of a parking lot. Show More Sentences Several years ago, while anchored out of the channel with the required navigational lights lit, my family and I were almost run down by a party boat dinner cruiser. The cental defender went on a surging run down the right and knocked in a cross which Jason Ashby volleyed over the bar from 10 yards. This had led to horses, startled by a passing locomotive and coming off their dandy cart, being run down by the following train. There was a bus station just outside the designer outlet centre but was shut down some years ago, it was quite run down. At 25, Ryan would shatter defenders with his run down the flank, but at 35, he will play deeper. Two approximately parallel Triassic sandstone ridges run down the length of the peninsula. A big depot at Le Havre had been run down by using it to feed troops in the area and removing the military stores not immediately needed. The Atlas Mountains run down the backbone of the country, from the northeast to the south west. The Peninsular ranges of the California cordillera run down the geographic center of the state. Smooth slopes, lacking vegetation at higher levels but also devoid of any real interest, run down toward Burnmoor and the head of Wastwater. The cables run down both sides of the tunnel attached to metal framework from one end to the other. The long Standedge Tunnel just after Marsden crosses under the watershed and the majority of the run down to Manchester is in the Tame valley. The board of directors have decided to run down the stocks held in storage prior to offering the company for sale. The spillover from the dam due to the heavy rains will run down this channel and harmlessly dump into that river, we hope. If you have a petrol mower, run down the fuel before storing it and disconnect the sparkplug lead. Like the wayfarers run down by the automobilist, they are offered up to the God of Speed. Neil Cogger made a fine run down the left before rolling the ball to Ian Brown who scored from 10 yards with ease. The escape hatch for the administration may be to run down the clock. After a black-out, boaters should immediately shut off all the power in their boat so the batteries won't run down. Plus, the student union, originally built in 1950 and expanded in the 1970s, is out of date and run down, officials say. Show More Sentences The CEGB's power station legacy is now being run down due to age or EU emission regulations for coal-fired power stations. Coal black lines run down into its centre and over the inky patterning of the outer surface are obdurate glazy dribbles. Rehabilitating the peroneal tendons, which run down the outside of your legs, should have stabilized your ankle. The boys of Eugene summer are the Emeralds, and they were back in June to run down fly balls and fungoes in old Civic Stadium. This may result from being run down or unwell, taking antibiotics, douching or overzealous washing. The growth in tourist numbers continued into the age of the motor car, when railways began to be closed or run down. In addition, the biomass of global fish stocks have been allowed to run down to the point where it is no longer possible to catch the amount of fish that could be caught. On one occasion a driver fell asleep in the dandy cart of the preceding train and his horse, no longer being led, came to a stop and was run down by a locomotive. I finally managed to run down that report. I had filed it incorrectly. They are slow and reticent, and are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field. When he tried to break free of the British blockade in November, he was run down and attacked by the British under Admiral Hawke at the Battle of Quiberon Bay. Most people have antibodies for the cold sore virus but only some people seem to develop cold sores when they are run down or exposed to strong sun. O'Brien said vapor is coming in from the outside and if trapped inside, it will recondense into liquid water and run down the inside face of the building. You need to wind up the clock every day so that it doesn't run down. Examples from Classical Literature You'll have a fine run down to culm, and you must send me a line back by the skipper. The potentiometer must never be shunted around the B battery or the latter will soon run down. Don't connect a potentiometer across the B battery or it will speedily run down. It is those people who are run down, and in whom the white corpuscles are 'below par,' that catch the disease. Mind, my dear Bertie, I do not wish to run down your view or that of any other man. In hot, sultry weather the boar may be run down by the hounds and captured. These and the squalid back-door yards which run down to the bank do not 257 make up an attractive picture to the canoeist. Planks, secured to the rail by lines, were then run down to bear the chafe. The roadrunner, however, serves a better purpose in life than being run down by hounds. He clave the rock in the wilderness, and caused waters to run down like a river. There had been some cars filled with corn whiskey that had run down and got afire. The result was a run down to Gravesend to pay just a friendly visit to Langdon. The howling of the winds in the cwms and dingles which run down the p. 13mountain on every side was really appalling. And meantime, I'll run down to dad's office, and have him back here in half an hour. Deep ravines run down on either hand through green, ferny sheep-walks, dotted with innumerable sheep. I have seen a goral run down the face of a cliff which appeared to be almost perpendicular, and where the dogs dared not venture. After the gale blew itself out, a fresh breeze succeeded, which enabled them rapidly to run down their southing. No matter how good the cause, how patriotic the People, an inconvertible paper money is sure to run down at the heel. We can use automobile batteries, and the inverter will give us 110 AC for a while, until the batteries run down. A joyride in which a man was run down figured prominently in his first nights entertainment. Show More Sentences Could not I run down to Grasmere for a week, with kibble to take care of me, and see dear grandmother? This prevents rain soaking down inside the leaf sheath, but lets it run down the outside to the root where it is needed. But no matter how he strove to run down the lurker, he lost him every time. I make it eleven because if it's fine we might run down and have the day at maidenhead. And at that toonie threw up both hands and let go his courage, and turned and tried to run down the hill. Brooke laughed softly, as he watched the water run down the moralizer's nose. He tried to run down to his motorboat but made a bad job of that, for he only waddled. I will run down to the Naze anyhow, and then we shall see what it is like outside. I happen to be at my sister's, on my way from Cairo to Norway, so I undertake to run down. Enthusiastically and yet with all humility for I have no red carpet to run down the stair. But for Rigel the fourth boat picked up might have been run down by the Carpathia. If I was to go, that 'ouse would run down like a watch with the mainspring out. Millot was stumbling, laughing, swearing meaninglessly out of pure satisfaction, pleased with himself for having run down that fly-by-night. He can let his hotel run down to the last degree of shabbiness and yet have it full of people all the time. Does not goober Creek run down there about a mile in that direction? He was on board the indiaman that was run down by the transport. Both of them run down as far as the car, and lose themselves in an iron receptacle of cylindrical form, which is called the heat-tank. Charging at full run down upon them they overthrew three of the girl's escort before a blow could be struck in her defense. They are the children of the groves and fountains, and of the holy waters that run down into the sea. Even on Saturday when asked to run down the clock, he won a series of corners right at the death to kill time, using all his experience. Show More Sentences I'll run down an' tyke a look over my kit, if you've no objections, sir, to wearin' my things. Most of the installations remained, badly run down but repairable. Only by dextrous work could he save himself from being run down. A year later, Harriett, run down, was ordered to the seaside. They gave one deep howl, and settled down to the long, lobbing canter that can at the last run down anything that runs. She's too weak to use a handkerchief, and the tears just run down her face. In later years, Reading seems to have been regarded as a handy place to run down to, when matters were becoming unpleasant in London. Lizzy, my dear, run down to your father, and ask him how much he will give her. Cold shivers run down my back when I think of what might have happened if I had sent it. You run down to this number and get a good, gummy, pathetic yarn. Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with. Charlie Cowan and Fred Marr had started, but half-way down their sled got stuck and I run down to shove them off again. Boots had then run down the lane, and another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been hurt. He loved to run down dry watercourses, and to creep and spy upon the bird life in the woods. The heat will cause the oil to run down between the stopple and mouth. The others were no less ragged and unkempt, even the foppish Will Scarlet being so badly run down at the heel that the court ladies would hardly have had speech with him. Leicester got their act together with a good run down the right by Chris Makin but the promisingmovecame to nothing asthe final pass found the overanxious Connolly off-side. Amy will be in presently, and she will run down for us, suggested Meg. Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled sea-weed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs. Starting with the funerals of both, Senior Investigator for Very Important Cases Arkady Renko takes a run down the rathole of post-Cold War geopolitical corruption. Show More Sentences The Richmond house was built of limestone, and, although it was said in the village to have become run down, had in reality grown more beautiful with every passing year. Susan's feet hardly touched the slope that seemed to run down with her. He shouted Christine's name, brandished his pistol, knocked his forehead against the glass in his endeavors to run down the glades of the illusive forest. These days she could even bring enough classy sassy style to The Locomotion without anyone in the audience feeling the slightest prickle of embarrassment run down their backs. In the meantime his life remained run down, planless, and empty and idle. I mean, how strange it is of you to run down volunteering, when it's done to defend you and all the other women, and our own fireside and everybody else's, in case of need. And then shall I run down the cellar and get some russets, Matthew? In this way they would consume the summer, and when autumn came on, would run down to the Sandwich Islands and winter in some friendly and plentiful harbor. Find more words! 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