Sentence examples for overcrowded streets from inspiring English sources

Her Rome is polyglot and multicultural, animated by the entrepreneurialism of freed slaves in overcrowded streets.

Pregnant women in Sierra Leone are not screened for birth defects, and the results are evident on Freetown's overcrowded streets.

There are hundreds of similar homes crammed into the overcrowded streets, filled with some of the poorest and most vulnerable families in the Gaza Strip.

Great on period detail, Easter conjures up a satisfyingly creepy atmosphere of fear and menace in the filthy, overcrowded streets by the docks, where frightened and desperate people will do anything to ensure their survival.

The disorganization led to overcrowded streets and hotels and more than 200 arrests and vocal complaints by local residents and business owners that the weekend had been a blight on the city's image.

Lounging in a high-floor room at the St. Francis Hotel, drinking coffee served in perfect porcelain cups, Dr. Nancy Padian was far from the sad, overcrowded streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, but they and their beleaguered people remained on her mind.

The first thing one sees, on entering Shatila, is piles of garbage on the sides of the streets; the air is stifling, the narrow alleyways are dotted with shops, and a street vender sells fruits and vegetables, their colorful arrangements standing out against the shabby, neglected, overcrowded street.

Some got stuck in overcrowded side streets and could not even see the screens, but managed with oral accounts.

Despite the stream of visitors across the foothills of the Pyrenees, and the overcrowded August streets of the Cité, the spirit of the place is strong.

Those most ardently opposed to the development contend that the schools -- which South Orange shares with Maplewood -- will become overcrowded, the streets will become congested and an opportunity to preserve the rare patch of rocky open space will be forever lost.

Kind of sounds like the rampant knock-off culture of "shanzhai" that's found in China's overcrowded city streets.