Sentence examples for a sprawling settlement of from inspiring English sources

The problem is exacerbated in El Alto, a sprawling settlement of more than a million people who have migrated from the countryside.

In Nairobi's Kibera slum, a sprawling settlement of rusted shanties and footpaths littered with plastic bags, mango pits and virtually every other class of garbage, some people waited nine hours on their feet under a withering sun.

Kibera, known as the biggest slum in Africa, is a sprawling settlement on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya's capital, with one million people squeezed into a warren of rusted roof shacks, linked by muddy footpaths and streams of greenish-grayish sewage trickling alongside.

Many of them were from Refugio, a sprawling settlement that was furthest from Matagorda.

It lost both the governorship of the department and the mayor's race in El Alto, a sprawling settlement populated mainly by indigenous Aymara voters, Mr Morales's keenest supporters.

Less than a town, Nosara is more like a sprawling settlement.

We — me, my traveling companion Nigel Brennan and the three Somali men helping us with our work — were headed that day to a sprawling settlement just outside the city to do some reporting.

Completion of a cable-car project linking relatively wealthy La Paz with the sprawling settlement of El Alto, on a neighbouring tableland, was both practical and symbolic.

The reports from this sprawling settlement of mud-walled houses show why.

To reach its pretty hilltop you have to drive through the sprawling settlement of Gush Etzion, one of the largest of Jewish settlement blocs on the West Bank, close to the 1967 border.

The northeast Valley is a sprawling network of older settlements and the remnants of farming communities like Pacoima in the northeast reaches of Los Angeles.