slum

Example Sentences

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I don’t think I’d be able to add something to a kid boxing his way out of the slums, because I don’t know that experience.

From Salon

Residents are running guided tours through slums once controlled by gang leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal

I flinched at the slumming comment, but the truth was our businesses benefited from the tourism.

From Literature

He left a peerless catalogue of songs articulating the life of working class Irish immigrants, with tales of finding love in the slums littered with references to literature, mythology and the Bible.

From BBC

He was as familiar with its gleaming mansions as its darkest slums.

From Literature