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Meanings of broken-down in английском
In deplorable condition.
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Examples for "dilapidated"
Examples for "dilapidated"
1
A year ago Chesterfield was a slightly dilapidated but entirely adequate station.
2
Immediately past the gates, however, stood a series of dilapidated mechanics' workshops.
3
Experts and engineers had said dilapidated machinery was responsible for the accident.
4
Iraq's infrastructure is dilapidated after decades of war, sanctions and economic decline.
5
The cowyards in many districts were formerly in a very dilapidated condition.
1
Turning back, Rardove sailed a brief look over the young, derelict soldiers.
2
The building seemed even more derelict than it had twenty minutes ago.
3
Property porn was a great escape: derelict castles, run-down farms, lighthouse conversions.
4
Some promoters didn't share our concern, and staged events in derelict warehouses.
5
The city, the island, now carried the haunted feel of a derelict.
1
The shed was a ramshackle wooden affair that had seen better days.
2
A shiny, new double-wide mobile home was parked near the ramshackle barn.
3
The ramshackle one- and two-story buildings gave way to desert and highway.
4
What about that ramshackle manor house in Lancashire you love so well?
5
Alec scrambles from the plane and runs to the ramshackle jockeys' room.
1
Lionheart then made a quick inspection of the other 'cat's bedraggled fur.
2
Even the animals, in their woven willow enclosures, appeared bedraggled and morose.
3
He was about the most bedraggled and beat-up thing she'd ever seen.
4
At seven I rolled myself out of bed, feeling cranky and bedraggled.
5
Nan saw his wet face, with the bedraggled hair clinging about it.
1
But its tatterdemalion presence relieved her, and her face jerked up scarlet.
2
There, at the corner near the learned Club-house, halts the tatterdemalion.
3
This tatterdemalion crew of mine is all there is left of my cohorts.
4
A bloodied tatterdemalion of a figure was leaning out of the train's cab.
5
Coronado's first bullet knocked a villainous-looking tatterdemalion clean into the happy hunting grounds.
1
At the base of the knolls he encountered a tumble-down stake-and-rider fence.
2
And they live in that little tumble-down house in Mullen Lane, and-
3
General Grant's headquarters were in the second story of a tumble-down building.
4
We choose two of the tumble-down vehicles and go after the ladies.
5
This tumble-down, six-roomed cottage was to be the saving of the family.
Usage of broken-down in английском
1
There are hints of an older past: broken-down churches; dense, uncultivated forests.
2
Look for the broken-down open gate to the right of the allotments.
3
He was evidently broken-down by terror, and engrossed in his own safety.
4
It is now well-known that most superstition is in fact broken-down ritual.
5
On the contrary, he helped the broken-down man to leave the country.
6
I had to try to herd them away from the broken-down vehicle.
7
I saw six more stacked in the back of a broken-down hearse.
8
We need not treat it as a survival of a broken-down theory.
9
He remembered his morning's tramp and the broken-down motor-car under the trees.
10
Kyle wondered what could possibly be impressive about the broken-down one-handed saboteur.
11
He was made into a broken-down beast by his masters, the arch-beasts.
12
A broken-down motor-car, kit-bags, helmets, rifles and knapsacks were littered in heaps.
13
Save for a rickety chair and a broken-down table, it was empty.
14
From the walls poked the remains of broken-down sheds with gaping fronts.
15
A month more of this would make me a hopelessly broken-down woman.
16
I don't want that boy to ever see me weak and broken-down.
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