Sentence examples for is a slum from inspiring English sources

"He is a slum landlord," she said.

Q: What is a slum?

"Garbage city" in Cairo is a slum where sifting through trash and recycling takes place.

One positive programme is a slum upgrading pilot project implemented by non-state actors that also lacks government support.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo Portobello Books, pbk £9.99 Annawadi is a slum on the edge of Mumbai airport.

Makoko is a slum community living in wooden buildings on stilts over the water of Lagos Lagoon in Nigeria, and canoes are the residents' primary means of transportation.

Dotty (the wonderful Andrea Martin), who plays the housekeeper, is a slumming grand dame.

Mr. Bale's fierce inwardness likewise suits the character of Borden, a working-class striver (Angier is a slumming aristocrat) who is also something of a purist.

"Or it can be a slum.

I assumed it was a slum village.

His house was a slum.