Sentence examples for squalid tenements from inspiring English sources

We lived in squalid tenements and worked until 4 a.m.

Some are squalid tenements without air or light; others are places you or I could live in.

And while Villagers prided themselves on embracing the unconventional, many had little tolerance for uneducated immigrants in squalid tenements.

The same is true of many of the other picturesque immigrant patients, glimpsed in squalid tenements or dying in the ward.

BARRIO ITALIA, a neighborhood of once-monotonous facades in the western part of Santiago, was built as an alternative to the squalid tenements that dotted the Chilean capital in the early 20th century.

What he and other members of the 1 percent of the day paid for became a centerpiece in an immigrant neighborhood where languages like Russian and Polish filled the air — and where extended families were jammed into squalid tenements.

The onetime luxury hotel behind her is now a squalid tenement for poor people like herself.

The city's very first draft notices were delivered to squalid "tenement houses" huddled behind Endicott Street, not far from the scene of the events at the armory.

In a squalid tenement that reeks of garbage, up a dark staircase flanked by graffiti, the Muslims in the center of this teeming European capital find a place to pray.

The New Yorker, January 12 , 1929P. 9 Mr. Whalen and a civilian aide stopped by a Police captain as they are coming out of a squalid tenement in Bleeker St. were asked by him: "You men live here?" View Article By Rivka Galchen By Masha Gessen By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell.

Before long, a parallel mania hit the Bowery district of NYC, where voguish New Yorkers could see "Hebrews," "squalid negro neighbourhoods" and "tenements… crowded with sweltering humanity".