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Sentence count:101+2Posted:2017-04-24Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: slum areaSimilar words: slumpslumpedslumberslugslurslunkslushsludgeMeaning: [slʌm]  n. a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions. v. visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity. 
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31, It also extended them to cover land affected by new town designation orders, slum clearance orders and new street orders.
32, I have shewn middle class respectability... fattening on the poverty of the slum as flies fatten on filth.
33, And what offends against it is the mill chimney and the steam engine, factory-labour and the city slum.
34, Outsiders paid attention to slum conditions only when they burned and a black family died.
35, One of these was a dreadful modern slum in Liverpool - an enclave of vandalised flats surrounded by wastelands.
36, They buy up an entire slum block, raze it and erect a castle containing theaters, concert halls and restaurants.
37, Or Pavitra, who drinks contaminated water in her Delhi slum.
38, Once in his jungle or slum he will learn by trying like anyone else to make the best of his circumstances.
39, In the sequel, Whoopi will play a nun who helps a gospel choir in a city slum.
40, The newspapers' solution was to rake a few of the slum owners across the coals of public opinion.
41, By 1852 James Lowe was reduced to poverty and Bermondsey had become a slum.
42, This success suggested that the general housing shortage was now considerably eased,(http://sentencedict.com/slum.html) and attention returned to slum clearance.
43, Not in urban development, not in city slum clearance, not in social welfare.
44, Maria lives with her eight children in a slum outside Montevideo.
45, As the city slumbers, a slum area in a remote corner of the metropolis goes up in flames.
46, Here in these slum streets existed an army of the unskilled, all trying to wrest a living anyway they could.
47, But the end of slum clearance came more with a change in values: away from demolition, to conservation and rehabilitation.
48, Writing about slum life for middle- and upper-class consumption was not a new genre in the 1880s.
49, Who tells Nestle not to promote the bottle feeding that may give a slum child fatal diarrhoea?
50, Humorous description of the appearance and the denizens of this slum area of London.
51, We no longer allow the weak or foolish or unfortunate to perish in the gutters of a city slum.
52, The friend is called Bobby and he lives in a slum near the city centre.
53, Finally, dissatisfaction with housing conditions produced schemes for slum clearance or improvement and substantial house-building programmes.
54, Most slum children do not go to school, are very poor, and speak only Hindi.
55, King tried moving into a slum to dramatize the housing crisis, but Chicagoans already knew about the slums.
56, You never were, although the slum people were complaining that a monster was preying on them.
57, Everywhere was thick with greenish slime and off-white guano in this great bird slum.
58, It was a prosperous and fashionable area in CD's days but deteriorated into a slum in the late nineteenth century.
59, The slum area was sordid and filthy beyond belief.
60, He came finally upon a miserable slum.
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