Sentence examples for To be squalid from inspiring English sources

After Patrick gets back from the Russian River, he goes to the farmers' market, watches a gay rugby game, and meets up with Kevin, his lover-boss, in a motel that is said to be squalid but looks exquisite in a sand-blasted, Aegean way.

They had a somewhat restricted view in Sandymount, Dublin 4 of what was suitable reading for a schoolgirl in the late 1950s: my uncle had confiscated an Agatha Christie mystery from me, pronouncing the subject of murder to be "squalid" and "disedifying" for the tender consciences of a young lady.

Then there will be squalid day-to-day horse trading with Scottish Nationalists, Plaid Cymru, assorted Irish Unionists and, possibly, footloose independents with no policy apart from the vague promise to do their best for the constituency that elected them.

Welcome to New York is squalid and joyless fare.

I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood.

We laugh at lads in the Middle Ages for being squalid enough to get Black Plague, but look at us.

Long Island inmates took part in a collective campaign to complain about what they say are squalid conditions at two Suffolk County correctional facilities.

the domestic violence cover-up is squalid, and would seem to be more consequential.

It's squalid and dangerous, crowded and muddy – and home to thousands of migrants desperate to reach Britain.

"The old Victorian prisons are squalid and vermin-infested and governors do not have direct access to the funds to tackle it.

It is squalid in there, but, fortunately, not too squalid to bear.