Sentence examples for in a squalor from inspiring English sources
In a squalor hoarder's home you may find standing pools of putrid water, carcasses of dead animals, discarded dirty adult diapers, and the like.
"You living in a squalor situation but you have Benetton sheets and even Benetton curtains, and the place you livin' in has no hot runnin' water.
Finally making it to Tijuana, they ended up in Benito Juarez, the open-air sports complex turned shelter where some 6,000 migrants squeezed together in a squalor of mud, lice and raw sewage.
Aren't China and India catching up to America because businesses there are willing and able to exploit their labor even more horrendously than we do, and they allow the vast majority of their citizens to live in a squalor that makes even some of our poorest neighborhoods look genteel?
LeRoy's books deal in a trampy squalor and a kind of sawed-off lyricism that are, if nothing else, fiendishly à la mode.
Both were political anarchists when they started out; both were ignored or disparaged by establishments whose disdain they returned in kind; and both lived in a colorful squalor whose low point was reached just before their great discoveries.
Orwell's description of the taste of Victory gin in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a masterclass in squalor: It gave off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice-spirit.
Because of this, I now have to be on tour for about six and half months a year to keep living like a Western, adult human with a shred of dignity (i.e., not in total squalor in a house that has a basement that regularly floods with feces a foot and half deep... true story).
Martin, who remained a musician, resides in squalor in New York; Daniel, who has become a globe-trotting businessman, lives in sterile luxury in Greenwich, Conn.
A citation in its Building for Life Award, a coveted industry gong, called the development a 'jewel in a sea of squalor'.
Marise lives in a state of squalor, and yet the story implies that she's wealthy that she owns so much she can "afford to trample it underfoot in a grand gesture". What, if anything, is she rebelling against?
