Sentence examples for squalid slums from inspiring English sources

It became a polyglot modern centre with cabarets, nightclubs, and squalid slums (later partially cleared).

With its vivid description of squalid slums, Mary Barton helped awaken the national conscience.

Congested, flood-prone and scarred by squalid slums, Indonesia's capital sorely needs the competent and honest administration he has promised.

In Mumbai, itself a neat nutshell of India's extremes, this image is served on a platter: the shiny towers that rise from a sprawl of squalid slums, the two inevitably "jostling for space" in globalising India.

Only the great Nigerian spirit -- of "suffering and smiling" at the same time, as the late Afrobeat musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti described it -- lifts up Lagos's squalid slums and gaudy mansions into what is perhaps Africa's most vibrant city.

Portsea, covering much of the town of Portsmouth, was a dockside parish of around 40,000 inhabitants with a mixture of housing ranging from neat terraces to squalid slums.

Writer describes squalid, slum-like conditions.

Ramat Eshkol, a housing estate built for Jewish immigrants in the ruins of Lod's old Arab city, bulldozed after the 1948 war, is today a squalid slum, housing mostly Arabs.

Here is a richly realized alternate Victorian world of elegant upper-class homes and squalid faerie slums.

It had also pushed outwards beyond the wall into squalid extramural slums such as Shoreditch, Holborn, and Southwark and had reached far enough to include the independent City of Westminster.

The authors document the wealthy lifestyle of the privileged and, for contrast, quote affecting descriptions by Charles Dickens and others of the squalid and insanitary slums at the other end of town.