Sentence examples for squalid with from inspiring English sources

He said when the Green Street apartment was vacated it was squalid, with filth including human waste.

His extended solos during one or two-chord vamps — particularly on "Close to the Sky," "Waswasa" and "Even if You Knew," in that order of quality — are scrabbling, circular, slightly heroic, pulmonary with wah-wah and squalid with distortion.

The airport is particularly dismal: cramped, squalid, with rude staff and far too few flights.One of the few routes to Lemberg is via Warsaw, where your diarist nearly misses his connection because of a huge queue at an inadequate transit point.

The conditions in the fish industries are often squalid with the continual generation of liquid wastes.

Their migrant reception centres are overcrowded and often squalid, with many migrants held there for months or years as the authorities struggle with thousands of asylum claims.

She lives in a squalid menage with her alcoholic father, with whom she has a profane, semi-sexual, very occasionally fond, mostly murderous relationship.

The movie elides Rick with the power of the landscape, whether splendid or squalid, and with the film's visual impact, which is hardly negligible.

Lambert took over the squalid spot with plans to renovate it one room at a time.

The action starts – in typically squalid style – with a murder in a drug dealer's flat.

Those held in nominally state-owned detention centres live in squalid conditions with no access to lawyers.

It's a fairly squalid hellhole with no sign but it's actually a really comfortable place.