Sentence examples for squalid houses from inspiring English sources

As the Darnton family's life without father spirals downward, as Tootie loses job after job, as they move to ever smaller and more squalid houses, Darnton struggles to make sense of all this awfulness.

Ylva de Val Olsson, a Red Cross coordinator, said her organization had intervened after discovering in August that 138 pickers from Bangladesh were crammed into four squalid houses in Bracke, in central Sweden.

Ylva de Val-Olsson, a Red Cross coordinator, said her organization intervened after discovering in late August that 138 Bangladeshi pickers were crammed into four squalid houses in Bracke, in central Sweden.

Witnesses described paying £50-£60 £50-£60for sha weekooms in overcrowded and squalid houses, with up to forr people sharedng in a rooms sometines overcrowdedes on the floor.

The dirt roads and crumbling buildings are decidedly third world (or, to be politically correct, "underdeveloped"), and three and four generations of families live in squalid houses barely big enough for one.

The government offered the town's black residents squalid housing that was meant to facilitate their integration into white society.

The Roma, blighted by poverty and living in squalid housing on the outskirts of some European cities, have been singled out for attention.

(Isherwood) 'THE SEAFARER' A dark and enthralling Yuletide fable, written and directed by the wonderful Irish playwright Conor McPherson, set in a squalid house in Dublin on Christmas Eve.

He casts a forensic eye over the detritus of his life during this two-decade period – the squalid housing, the violence and the transient low-paid work.

Four Scumbag College students shared a squalid house: psychopathic punk Vyvyan (Ade Edmondson), depressed hippy Neil Nigel Planerr), shady conman Mike Christopher Ryann) and Cliff Richard-loving, poetry-writing, pompous anarchist Rick Rik Mayalll).

(Zinoman) ★ 'THE SEAFARER' A dark and enthralling Yuletide fable, written and directed by the wonderful Irish playwright Conor McPherson, set in a squalid house in Dublin on Christmas Eve.