Sentence examples for of the squalid from inspiring English sources

His family lives in one of the squalid hovels of Khwoja Bhugra, paying about $6.25 for rent.

"As the company prospered, enlightened management ended the era of the squalid field office and moved everyone uptown.

Then begins the long march to the nearest place of safety: one of the squalid refugee camps that are springing up on the outskirts of cities.

In 2009, a bedbug infestation at a former mill building that houses refugees grabbed headlines and raised awareness of the squalid conditions some were living in.

But as a light-hearted, insiderish account of the squalid world of celebrity, PR, drugs, drink and impossibly small skirts, does My Canapé Hell work?

Stories in Trnopolje, more freely told than at Omarska, are brimful of the squalid violence and black absurdity of civil war.

Pixote (1981) dealt with the hundreds of homeless children on the squalid streets of São Paulo, and Carandiru (2003) was set in Brazil's largest and most crowded prison.

There are signs that the disdain of Silicon Valley for the squalid world of politics is starting to dissipate.

Are you commenting on the human condition, the virility of the American male, the absurdity of war, the banality of peace, the grinding despair of poverty, the squalid immorality of wealth?

The long and melancholy record is closed by the crowning follies and miseries of our Egyptian campaign of 1882-5 and the squalid tale of "little wars" which have succeeded it.

Most of the work force came from the poorer elements of society, from the squalid slums of Glasgow or Edinburgh, and managers expected little else from them.