Sentence examples for slum down from inspiring English sources

In order to hunt down the home, Korvayan directed his trucks into the slum, down a narrow alley.

My home town was slummed down; bullet holes and wrecked buildings reproached the eyes.

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the show is that upper class activities and language are presented without apology or explanation: a joke about the nature of Harrow School is delivered without sub-titles or nervous slumming down and viewers are trusted to understand a line from Saunders Conniee in which the punch-word is "primogeniture".

Whether you're up from a slum or down from a carriage, how be sure you're a poet?

Almost makes you feel sorry for those slumming it down below on Ipanema Beach.

Expressed in his trademark mordant tone ("I sound, as ever, ridiculous"), he relived his Band Aid experiences, recalling how Mother Teresa was a "wily old bird, very media hip" and at one point, on the subject of African slums, breaking down.

"God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here and his children who can't eat three square meals a day," said King.

It's all right to talk about "streets flowing with milk and honey," but God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here, and his children who can't eat three square meals a day.

This is not a tumble-down slum for "just arrived" rural migrants, as some reports have suggested, the soil of the fields still under their nails.

It is about time, they say, that this scruffy slum is torn down.

It is natural for governments to play down slum populations, just as non-government organisations working with the urban poor will seek to inflate the figures to impress donors.