Sentence examples for squalid that from inspiring English sources

Squalid That Welsh chose the Edinburgh books festival to reveal that he was writing the sequel has a certain symmetry.

Willets Point, in Queens, is a 61-acre expanse of junkyards and auto-repair shops so squalid that local business owners compare it to Iraq.

(He was a serial rapist of young girls, but the film, thank heaven, chooses only to glance at that habit; picture someone so morally squalid that his pedophilia counts as a sideline).

Experts say that as many as 8,000 migrants may be adrift in the Andaman Sea and Straits of Malacca, living in conditions so squalid that the United Nations has warned of an epidemic of "floating coffins".

He was desperately poor, living in squalid rooms that teemed with mice.

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

Self-important Norine Schmittlapp, for instance, is described as living in a squalid apartment that smells of "soured dishcloth".

Large families, sometimes 14-strong, often cram into squalid shacks that used to house three or four people.Gypsy children are particularly vulnerable.

He also sensed that this thing about facts and equilibrium was a lie he told himself to justify going after squalid details that were none of his business.

It is just this sort of glorying in the squalid, however, that has made Welsh the target of stinging criticism from two of Scotland's leading writers.

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.