Sentence examples for squalid place from inspiring English sources
It was not the stifling, squalid place of its reputation; it was dense and subtle.
Kfar Tappuach is a squalid place of rusted cars, yards filled with tires and rotting mattresses, and children wearing secondhand clothing.
Bytown was such a squalid place that By wanted nothing to do with it: it had the dubious honour of being the most violent town in North America, drunken navvies and leery loggers frequenting the bawdy brothels in Byward Market.
I picked the dorky name of Eva's squalid place of employ out of the air one day, yet the production team had to carefully paint a real sign over a real shop premises reading "Travel R Us".
The norm is a harsh, squalid place where women's bodies are still too often men's playthings, extreme porn is widely distributed among schoolchildren and "slut-shaming" goes hand in hand with heteronormativity.
I mean the actual process of deciding what to take, packing, getting to the airport two hours early without what you could call a ticket, just a floppy piece of paper, taking off your shoes, having your nail scissors confiscated and then sitting about in the most squalid place imaginable until your flight is called.
Anyone seeking further evidence of the candidate's Victorian orientation could find it in this particular strain of cultural partisanship, which imagines cities not as they now are but as they once were, long ago — squalid places ripe for moral renewal.
Once this building was the pride of Greece's 2004 Olympics; this weekend it is a squalid, cold place full of desperate people.
Gen. Bismullah Hamid, who runs Helmand Central and is described by the Westerners who work with him as a "visionary" in the Afghan prison system, recalled that when he was assigned to the prison, it was a squalid, crowded place filled with gangs and drugs.
But judgements about how squalid a place has to be before someone is not allowed to return home are obviously evaluative.
But a new wave of immigrants from places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia has met indifference or even outright hostility.On May 9th far-right protesters tried to storm a former court building in Athens that is a squalid home for 600 immigrants.
