squalor

Example Sentences

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The court heard that Pereira made allegations of Home Office "corruption", claimed illegal immigrants were employed by the government department and those in the system were living in "squalor".

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Social reformers saw only crowding and squalor, but black wealth was accruing through the ownership of property.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

While living in low-budget squalor, he slowly taught himself English, first by translating a random copy of the Stephen King novella “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2025

The Allies didn’t leave Germany and Japan to stew in their squalor; they had a plan not just for defeating the old regimes but helping to build new ones.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2025

Others succumb, and in squalor see their last vision of Time.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson