Sentence examples for squalid area from inspiring English sources

The road from the airport runs past the Cape Flats, the squalid area where most blacks and mixed-race people still live.

Formerly a squalid area of East London, these days even the street drunks are gentrified.

His debut, Adam & Paul, followed two comically hapless low-lifes around the more squalid areas of Dublin, while 2007's Garage centred on a simple-minded petrol station worker.

But the new story will still be set in Edinburgh, which has the advantage of offering, along with plenty of classical architecture, an infinite number of dank staircases leading down into squalid areas where Rankin's sleuth can find bodies in even worse condition than his own.

It looked like a squalid waiting area with rubber-covered mattresses.

I have seen firsthand the lack of hope and economic opportunity for women displaced from their homes by political turmoil and living in refugee camps or squalid urban areas.

The people living around this squalid waste disposal area are the poorest of the poor.

On the one hand, the area offered squalid living conditions and a bare minimum of amenities (aside from a few decent dive bars); on the other, there was the cheap rent and the freedom it created.

The detention center where non-Syrian refugees are held, Moria, is also overflowing, and people have been found trying to break in because the conditions in the overflow area are so squalid.

Made in early 1970, entirely on location, with the actors providing their own costumes, Cannon's first non-porn feature opens with the hippies Frank Patrickk McDermott and Melissa Susan Sarandonon) sharing a bath in the kitchen area of their squalid East Village apartment.

The experience of the past two decades proves that pouring money in an ad hoc fashion into squalid and fragmented inner city areas cities does not represent good value.