Sentence examples for the shared squalor from inspiring English sources

Putin grew up in the shared squalor of a city — Leningrad, formerly and now St . Petersburg— that had, eight years before he was born, emerged from the abject suffering of a horrific Nazi siege.

When Richard E Grant sees his best friend cut his hair in the final reel, preparing to leave their shared hippy squalor for the strict world of work, is he being horrified by a premonition of the post-1979 country in which Britons will all jolly well have to pull their socks up?

We, as people, aren't the same, and we, as women, certainly don't want to share the squalor of the men's bathroom, even if the line is shorter.

Haiti's capital is a study in extremes – hillside slums of squalor overlook fancy hotels and United Nations compounds – but with the working day all but done most inhabitants shared the same thought: head home.

Placing those decorative feminine touches amid the squalor of the two-room apartment shared by Stanley and Stella, she is not merely frivolous; she is remaking the world in her image.

Hot meals or a share in the squalor of halls?

Like the characters in "The Island," the several hundred black men I shared a cell with refused to be dehumanized by the squalor of their conditions.

For now, the road captures both the splendor and the squalor of Guyana's isolation.

Yet in the midst of the squalor there is activity, and flashes of the old splendor.

She seemed untouched by the mud and the squalor.

Here, the grandeur of the architecture is equalled only by the squalor of the food.