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
The old powers from the inner city — Crenshaw, Dorsey, Jefferson, Locke and Fremont — experienced big changes in demographics.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 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
The group released their debut single Liberty Bell in 2017, a track which makes reference to a working class area of inner city Dublin known as the Liberties.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025
“I know that so many young men living in the inner city feel deprived of the better things in life,” my dad was saying.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
