Sentence examples for to squalid from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chávez's speeches often had references to "squalid oligarchs" bent on preserving their upper-class privileges.

The city's very first draft notices were delivered to squalid "tenement houses" huddled behind Endicott Street, not far from the scene of the events at the armory.

In June, Human Rights Watch reported that 7,000 to 10,000 Kachin refugees were in China and subjected to squalid conditions and harsh treatment by officials.

From luxury wine estates to squalid and violent informal settlements, South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies in the world.

Hotels run from utilitarian to squalid, but Banglamphu is within walking distance of the Grand Palace, and its counterculture kitsch makes it a sight in itself.

Human rights abuses are commonplace and most young Eritreans, along with the professional class, dream of fleeing the country, even to squalid refugee camps in Ethiopia or Sudan.

But many also note that al-Qaeda-style jihadism has killed more Muslims, from Morocco to Saudi Arabia to the squalid Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon, than "infidels".In past decades, Arabs looked to leaders for guidance.

At college she had gone, dressed in twinset and pearls, to a squalid New York office to try to join the Communist Party.

When heavies take him to a squalid site to kill him, he requests a better place.

Haizi wang (1987; King of the Children) is the story of a young teacher sent to a squalid rural school "to learn from the peasants".

Which meant I would wear the same clothes for many days, until I found a moment to go back to my squalid little cave, a few blocks away.