Third World country
Example Sentences
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“It looked like a third world country, these images, the drone images that were on the nightly news,” Newsom told reporters gathered Thursday along the cleaned up tracks.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2022
"I feel like we are living in a third world country with our law and order right now," Miah’s brother-in-law Muhammad Ahsan, 44, who lives in Brooklyn, told NY Daily News.
From Fox News • Oct. 19, 2021
"This isn't a third world country and we shouldn't have to rely on charities and food banks, there should be enough money there so that everybody can live a comfortable life," she said.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2021
Cuomo, joined by Vice President Joe Biden, who famously compared LaGuardia to an airport in a "third world country," said ground would be broken next year on a new airport.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2015
We’ve heard stories where a well-respected surgeon is asked to go to a third world country, and he gets there and the recipient has cirrhosis and the donor is his “cousin.”
From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2012
