Sentence examples for are slums from inspiring English sources
noun
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
'Reading about the country from the outside,' he writes, 'you would suppose the whole place was on the verge of a jihadi uprising, that the satellite towns are slums full of disaffected Muslims.' Though 'clearly exciting to believe, even for some Swedes', this is not the case.
Most of their inhabitants are poor, and most of their neighborhoods are slums.
He worries that gifted actors are slumming it in Corrie; he's pathetically grateful for Bob Monkhouse.
Now even big hedge funds are slumming.
Even big hedge funds are slumming.
They look as though they are slumming through these roles and want it all to end as quickly as possible.
Korogocho and Viwandani are slum settlements whereas Jericho and Harambeeare non-slum Settlements.
Everything else was slums.
Many of these now pricey places were slums just 30 years ago.
And they were Jerry built, badly designed and they were slums again in waiting.
Tour guides and chipper government officials like to use the euphemism "temporary cottages," but a better word is "slums".
