Sentence examples for squalor it from inspiring English sources

The environment too was much more than the squalor it contained.

Despite the post-Soviet squalor, it would be wrong to count Russia out.

His early novels, Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981), skewered corruption and the scum-filled squalor it fostered.

Mr. Marks and Mr. Bankowsky paid $1.23 million, moved in, and for several years ignored the interior squalor (it had been chopped into six apartments) while marveling at the space.

Strauch has abandoned Vienna for the alpine village of Weng ("the most dismal place I have ever seen," the narrator reports) and has holed up in an inn of unimaginable squalor ("It was the shortcomings of it that delighted him").

Orwell's description of the taste of Victory gin in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a masterclass in squalor: It gave off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice-spirit.

It's fleshy... in contrast to the squalor around it.

It was a time and place when acute housing shortages had led to conditions of inhuman squalor – conditions, it's not fanciful to argue, that applied to inter-war Bilston too.

What Ms. Kane has done in these scenes of ordinary squalor — and it amazes me that she could pull this off with such confidence in her early 20s — is set up a precise template for everything that follows.

Making their way through I Need My Girl and Squalor Victoria, it isn't until Sea of Love that things really begin to pique the interest of the crowd.

If you can see past their oddness, and past the mountains of empty cat food tins, and past the cobwebs and squalor, there it is: a total lack of apology for who they are.