slums
Example Sentences
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Cooking with firewood or coal is unsafe in cramped rooms in slums.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Like other reformers, including Catherine Bauer and Edith Elmer Wood, Simkhovitch saw slums through the narrow prism of their deplorable physical conditions, such as overcrowding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
About half of the state's population lives in slums, said University of Lagos professor Timothy Nubi.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Relating his journey to becoming a visual storyteller, Thomas recalled growing up in “one of the worst slums of Philadelphia,” sitting on his front stoop reading Shakespeare, James Baldwin and Tennessee Williams, immersed and transported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
She didn’t want anyone to know she had come from the slums.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
