inner city

Example Sentences

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“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

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

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

By the time we reached the inner city, all I felt was exhaustion.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros