Sentence examples for desolate suburbs from inspiring English sources

They were, like a lot of restless working-class boys from the desolate suburbs at the time, intelligent, if uneducated, and seeking ways of self-expression.

Partly because of his eagerness to show how much he knows, Kramer's narrator makes a breezy, informative guide to the crowded subways and desolate suburbs, the soba shops and pachinko parlors, the rural antique shops, the popular McDonald's and the "love hotels" where rooms can be rented for stays of precisely two hours.

At his church in Houston and in the bleachers in the Bronx, on couches in desolate suburbs, these people are consuming a worldview, an optimism, an artificial hope funneling directly into the side of their necks like a USB port.

The new sepia tinged video mimics the song's spaced-out glaze, with shots of the band performing in and around a desolate autumnal suburb.

The two clashing halves of "Simpatico's" divided soul are Lyle Carter Mr. Bridgess), a wealthy horse breeder and trainer who lives with his wife, Rosie (Ms. Stone), in a palatial estate in Lexington, Ky., and his old friend Vinnie Mr. Noltee), a down-and-out, hard-drinking eccentric who rattles around his shack in Cucamonga, a desolate eastern suburb of Los Angeles.

There were Syrians fleeing the remains of Aleppo and Palestinians running from Yarmouk, a generation after their parents first fled from Israel to that now-desolate Damascus suburb.

I have travelled to Belmarsh to see Hills in the desolate south east London suburbs.

In cities, in suburbs and on desolate country roads.

As Stevie knew all too well, even the suburbs come with desolate expanses.

His firm proposed the upper storeys of a converted office block in Tor Tre Teste, a dormitory suburb on the desolate outskirts of Rome, and proposed an annual rent of almost €1.3m (£930,000).

Another book, "The Long Emergency Atlantic Monthly Pressss, 2005), by James Howard Kunstler, an author and journalist who writes about economic and environmental issues, argues that American suburbs and cities may soon lay desolate as people, starved of oil, are forced back to the land to adopt a hardscrabble, 19th-century-style agrarian life.