inner city
Example Sentences
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Instead of the suburban setting common to so many cartoons — including Nickelodeon’s “Doug” — “Hey Arnold!” was set firmly in the inner city, a vibrantly gritty amalgam of Seattle, Portland and Brooklyn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
I remember helping organize a food bank with several other pastors in the inner city on the Eastern seaboard.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
Another $2,000 is listed for Cornerstone Schools that year “to assist the inner city schools in Uganda,” which is what Cornerstone Schools does in Detroit and Cornerstone Development does not do in Uganda’s inner-city schools.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026
Maverick Carter, a longtime friend and business partner of both James and Schottenstein who runs an entertainment company, describes meeting Schottenstein as “a young African-American kid from the inner city of Akron, Ohio.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
“I know that so many young men living in the inner city feel deprived of the better things in life,” my dad was saying.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
