slum

Example Sentences

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Sometimes, classes are held in an open area in a slum with students seated on mats and carpets.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

He has faced a concerted challenge from singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine, 43, who styles himself the "ghetto president", after his stronghold in a slum where he grew up in the capital, Kampala.

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

Despite his mounting fame, Bobi Wine chose to continue recording in a music studio he had built in the Kamwokya slum.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

He found that within these communities people clustered themselves according to education, income, family formation, rates of delinquency and other factors, just as other ethnic groups living in slum areas had done in previous eras.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded gilt nineteen-hundreds.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald