inner city
Example Sentences
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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
“I was in the inner city, I’m not going to shy away from that,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
The old powers from the inner city — Crenshaw, Dorsey, Jefferson, Locke and Fremont — experienced big changes in demographics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026
Formerly the site of a burial ground and then Lang Park sports stadium, named after a particularly fiery Presbyterian minister from Greenock in Renfrewshire, the Suncorp stands on some interesting terrain in the inner city.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
They sent students to the Deep South for civil rights projects and to the inner city for fieldwork.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
