What's the difference between rundown and tumbledown?

Rundown


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) 11.54am BST Lizzy Davies has sent me this brief rundown from the briefing by the salvage engineers: • Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy's civil protection agency, said that the parbuckling was proceeding "exactly according to predictions".
  • (2) Twenty people were shot dead last year in the city's rundown housing estates, where youth unemployment is as high as 40%.
  • (3) "We inherited a crumbling infrastructure, starved of funding; Victorian schools with rundown gyms, and thousands of playing fields sold off," Sutcliffe said.
  • (4) However, Freeman bounced back into the presenter's chair in 1964, and continued to present the weekly rundown of the singles chart until 1972.
  • (5) Cohen has been filming scenes in the Essex port town of Tilbury, which has been transformed into a rundown "Grimsby", complete with householders urinating out of their windows and children being offered beer.
  • (6) At least two people – a woman, identified by police as Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, who apparently blew herself up by detonating an explosive vest, and a man hit by multiple gunshots and a grenade – were known to have died in the seven-hour assault on the rundown apartment block .
  • (7) "The building was so rundown they decided to break it down altogether to rebuild it," Archana's mother explains.
  • (8) The price of the specially formulated milk he requires has quadrupled since last year, so his parents have had to rent out their own home and move into a much smaller, rundown one just to feed their child.
  • (9) All too unwittingly but effectively and increasingly, developed world citizens contribute to the rundown of the planet's natural resources that sustain everyone's welfare.
  • (10) Instead, Syed explained, the area was overcrowded and rundown.
  • (11) Comic-book epics Finally, no Week in Geek preview would be complete without a rundown of the coming year’s superhero stylings.
  • (12) On a modest street in a rundown area, Aziz Kara, a 64-year-old Turk, became embroiled in a ferocious argument with his neighbours.
  • (13) After the rundown, reversal potentials of ASP-induced currents were the same whether recorded with or without the intracellular support system and the Asp induced currents could be blocked by the specific NMDA channel blocker ketamine.
  • (14) Tyson Fury has no fear of retribution – he will say and do as he pleases | Kevin Mitchell Read more Every Saturday night, crowds of men from our rundown housing estate would get tanked up and go to watch those from an even lower pecking order than themselves inflict pain and humiliation on each other, while the spectators egged them on.
  • (15) The three of us agreed it was quiet, non-threatening, not particularly untidy, just a bit rundown – and obviously a very low-income area.
  • (16) Adaptive rundown of e.p.s.p.s during sound stimulation, i.e.
  • (17) If you’re still searching for apps, Samuel Gibbs has a good rundown of everything that’s left , including Snapchat and Facebook’s actual messenger app.
  • (18) In experiments where evoked acetylcholine release was maintained at physiologically relevant levels, atropine had no effect on the quantal content of EPPs evoked at low frequency or on the extent of rundown in trains of EPPs evoked at high frequency.
  • (19) But the town also has a number of mobile home parks at the edges, some more rundown than others.
  • (20) The rundown curve was composed of an initial stable period followed by a rather rapid decline.

Tumbledown


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tumbledown The semi-finals of BBC1’s celebrity gymnastics show Tumble had 2.9 million viewers between 6pm and 7.30pm on Saturday.
  • (2) Now it is as tumbledown as most of the rest of the sprawling city, with derelict planes littering its margins and weeds slowly eating the decaying concrete.
  • (3) The tumbledown venue named after him will be replaced as the national stadium by the towering new structure being built by the state oil company, Socar, with its 124 executive boxes and obligatory VVIP sections.
  • (4) There were other houses on the estate besides ours: a cottage, and a flat in the tumbledown stable block opposite our house, and a recherche dwelling called the Elephant House.
  • (5) It’s dappled, woozy, HD travel porn that lingers on beads of early-morning vineyard dew and charmingly tumbledown magic-hour Italian villages in a way that immediately makes you want to chuck some shirts in a bag and head for the airport.
  • (6) Since I was innocent, I didn’t have anything to fear,” says Ngarbaye, now secretary of the victims’ association, sitting in the organisation’s tumbledown headquarters, a few faded printouts of victims taped to the wall behind her.
  • (7) Like much of Moldova, it is a poverty-stricken landscape of tumbledown shacks, crumbling apartment blocks, dogs, chickens, kids and old women.
  • (8) Chuck's sits in a tumbledown row of shops, some shuttered, next to a place that does your taxes and, appropriately enough, a funeral home at the end of the street.
  • (9) Berg's new offices – a tumbledown building slated for demolition at the end of 2014 – are strictly temporary, and they say they're fearful they'll be priced out of Shoreditch for their next move.