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
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
Recruiting players from inner city Los Angeles used to be a priority for USC and UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2025
"It's very obvious really, piles of rubbish, mountains of rubbish really in streets inner city Birmingham, so yeah a very, very big problem," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025
By the time we reached the inner city, all I felt was exhaustion.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
