Sentence examples for squalid surroundings from inspiring English sources

Presents the adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

Above all else, though, it's Suede's love letter to Suede, a celebration of their knack for finding glamour in squalid surroundings.

There is estimated to be a record high of nearly 10,000 people living in squalid surroundings at the Calais camp, including hundreds of unaccompanied minors, with French charities warning of the worst sanitary conditions ever.

There are estimated to be nearly 10,000 people living in squalid surroundings at the Calais camp, including hundreds of unaccompanied minors, and French charities have warned of the worst sanitary conditions ever.

For instance if they had squalid surroundings with a lot of comedy tramps working in it, they would have very beautiful, boudoir music, something of the 18th century, very lush and grandiose, and it would be satirical, a counterpoint".

Sid and Nancy (1986) told the story of the doomed chemical romance between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, evoking the squalid Lower East Side surroundings and stumbling hopelessness of their last days.

Unless they were desperate, people who came from less desperate surroundings than squalid tenements tended to doubt that it would be good to live in one.

But considering that the 416 new apartments in the resurrected Prince George Hotel on East 28th Street, which will reopen today after standing vacant for a decade, belong to what was one of the city's most squalid welfare hotels, the new surroundings are downright luxurious.

When I was at university in Leeds a decade ago, my standard of living was a small step above squalid, so it was nice to be returning to my favourite northern city to languish in slightly more luxurious surroundings.

His apartment was squalid.

Today, Lago Agrio feels squalid.