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

Visiting just hours after the blaze, President Cyril Ramaphosa called it "a wake-up call to begin to address the situation of housing in the inner city".

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

Recruiting players from inner city Los Angeles used to be a priority for USC and UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2025

Five days later, the Russians surrounded the inner city, prepared for siege warfare.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti