Sentence examples for squalor on from inspiring English sources
The situation in the Tenderloin has received national attention recently, with the New York Times visiting the neighborhood and describing "developing-world squalor" on one especially gritty block.
THE modest compound where Saddam Hussein spent his last few hours of freedom offered a curious mixture of squalor, on the one hand, and on the other a selection of domestic items that had been carefully chosen, by Mr. Hussein or someone close to him, to support a life on the run.
They lived "in happy squalor on the Left Bank for two or three years amid the whores, jazz musicians and pederast poets".
A canvas, by Martin Wong, of a rusted security gate on a boarded-up storefront memorializes fear and squalor on the eve of gentrification.
Modo even boasts an editorial office, with four young editors and twice as many grape and blueberry iMacs housed in start-up squalor on West 17th Street.
A tenacious few continue to live in squalor on levees, grazing buffalo and gathering reeds in the remnants of marsh.Occupation by America and Britain has generated hopes of a reprieve.
Duveen was rarely in doubt about the glory of his stock, or about the squalor of that on offer from his competitors.
About 80 Ayoreo live in squalor in one spot on the side of the highway, sleeping under plastic bags draped from trees.
In 2002, articles in The New York Times by Clifford J. Levy reported on the chaotic squalor of the adult home system.
They are told to remove their blindfolds, and the squalor of the room registers on their shocked faces, with both saying, "Oh, my god," before two members of the film crew approach them wielding Febreze.
India reappears as the promise of redemption to rich Americans and also as a setting of physical squalor: of "interstate buses, piled on top with baggage and bundles and maybe a crate of chickens, some of them dying on the way" and "crowded with farmers, clerks, pregnant women carrying infants, and children vomiting out of the barred open windows through which dust and pollution flowed in".
