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
Handsworth and other inner city areas have been worst affected in recent years by a lack of investment, Mr Connell says, "disproportionately hitting the areas which already had problems around poverty and housing stock".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025
It began spilling out of the inner city, up the streets and highways that connect those neighborhoods to the rest of the city.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
