Sentence examples for rough estate from inspiring English sources

His Harry Brown is a widower in his 70s, living in a council flat on a rough estate, on medication for his emphysema.

"Readers may relish the idea of a 'master criminal'; alas, such people don't exist," wrote Scott, now 80 and living on a rough estate in King's Cross, London.

Amédy Coulibaly, who shot dead four Jewish shoppers and a policewoman in January's terror attacks, grew up on a rough estate in Grigny, south of Paris, and did time for armed robbery.

"He has been dumped on a pretty rough estate, where he is virtually the only non-white person," says Archer, one of only a handful of people granted permission by the Home Office to visit.

However, living on a rough estate in inner-city Nottingham, I decided on her breed specifically because I wanted to be able to feel safe walking around the area alone.

A music magazine recently photographed her in front of a rough estate astride a little bicycle, hair scraped back, all attitude, the sort of mouthy piece of trouble who would give back as good as she got whatever she was given.

Nearly three weeks of riots in these banlieues in 2005 illustrated the potential for violence among a French-born generation with a grievance.Those responsible for the three most murderous home-grown terror attacks by French citizens since 2012 do indeed share histories of crime and violence, as well as unstable family life, on such rough estates.

It's said he articulates his audience's political disenchantment, with ​Chubbs himself pointing out that his loyal fans are "rough people from rough houses on rough estates" who know that "[he] was just like them, except [he] struck lucky and found a way out".

"I remember him taking me to an estate and saying proudly: 'Look, this is the roughest estate in Sheffield and that bus stop is the only thing without any graffiti on it!" It was his mother who got him involved in a local drama group when he was nine.

"Dynamo's roughest estates!

One in ten workers is out of a job; one in four among young people; and one in two on the roughest estates.