Sentence examples for impoverished streets from inspiring English sources
ST. LOUIS — On the steps of an old police station, Kevin Cunningham looked out into the impoverished streets of north St . Louis
On the fringe of the park, forming a not entirely successful bridge to the impoverished streets of Leyton, is Chobham Academy, a grand new school which cost £33m.
In the godforsaken, impoverished streets of Ghana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and most other African nations you care to mention, though, the game is also a magic carpet ride out of a life of destitution.
According to Rivke Jaffe, an anthropologist at Leiden University who has studied downtown Kingston, many dons are more than just criminals who have inserted themselves between the impoverished streets and the bureaucracy.
On the impoverished streets of Anacostia, Patricia Reed, a 52-year-old cook, said she had voted for the incumbent in the race, Sandy Allen, in the last election.
In my new novel, The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street (Grand Central Publishing, $26.00), the protagonist, Lillian Dunkle, rises from the impoverished streets of the Lower East Side in 1913 to become a titan in the ice cream industry over the course of 70 years.
In "La Périchole" we get the exotic locale (Peru) and the impoverished street singer (Périchole) beloved of a nobleman.
The transformation of Bernie Schwartz, born in New York's Flower Hospital in June 1925, from an impoverished street kid in Manhattan and the Bronx into svelte, charming leading man was one of the more unlikely metamorphoses in Hollywood history.
In Mark Twain's novel The Prince And The Pauper (filmed many times), an impoverished street kid and a king's son swap clothes for a joke and end up being cast into each other's worlds.
Its original material may sound unpromising – Andersen's tale is a story about an impoverished street child who finds happiness only when united with her dead grandmother in heaven.
Kelley tells Chig's and Carlyle's separate stories mostly straight, but in between he grabs language by its edges and bends it as far as he can, in order to pull the bourgeois, Ivy-educated Chig and the impoverished, street-smart Carlyle into a single consciousness, made of their common national history.
