This alarmed them, so they took rooms in the first inn they came to - a run-down place at the edge of town.
It was a run-down place with a noisy, inefficient air-conditioner and no mosquito screens on the windows.
In all his years in San Francisco, he had never seen such a run-down place.
Nobody would want to live in such a horrible, run-down place.
I saw it go down the road a little way and then turn off toward that run-down place to the east.
A deserted, run-down place like that, anybody might be staying there.
The four girls find that the orphanage is a run-down and cruel place where all the children are forced into labour.
That run-down place on the hillside below me had been my home for the better part of a decade.
I've spent a lot of my life with very little choice, getting services that seemed to make things worse, living in very run-down places.
I'd seen enough to tell me this was a miserable, run-down place.