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How to use shanty town in a sentence

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The township is a sprawling shanty town and squatter camp hidden by the bush.
A housing scheme at the edge of Guanabara Bay outside Rio de Janeiro replaces a shanty town with architectural imagination and intelligence.
It was a barren grassland dotted with farms but soon grew into a shanty town surrounded by mine dumps as the diggers went deeper and deeper.
The story follows a few months in the life of a poor man in an Arab shanty town.
We rode through a stream, enjoyed a few final bursts of speed and skidding switchbacks and freewheeled into the shanty town of Yolosa.
I'd rather get within ten feet of someone who lives in township or a shanty town, because there are a great many of them.
The plane in which the Europeans arrive in San Theodoros is shown flying over an impoverished shanty town.
The so-called port at Siem Reap is actually a huge shanty town where the jetty is literally collapsing into the water.
Sheltering behind another wall, he could look out into a clear area where the people of the shanty town were gathered.
In 1974, he moved to Buenos Aires, got a job as a carpenter on a building site and lived with the Hermanitos in the shanty town of Villa Soldati.
It's like one of Martin Parr's photographic nightmares, a neon shanty town of amusement arcades, chip shops and crumbling holiday camps that look like gulags.
There are images from the shanty town of Hooverville and the insides of churches and pubs that might have come straight from an Edward Hopper painting.
We used to walk together kicking the cobblestones in the shanty town.
Honer presents the action as a broadly entertaining spectacle against the corrugated surfaces of Michael Pavelka's shanty town design.
You chose to record your new album in the Marcel Djabio studio in the middle of a shanty town in Libreville.
Services are available close to the site and neighbouring schools have taken in boys and girls from the old shanty town.
I stayed with Italian priests who are living in a shanty town twenty minutes from buses and the nearest tarred road.
Maria, 44, lives in a little shack made out of wood and plastic in the shanty town of Huila, in southwest Colombia.
Once you are through the last tunnel, there is another shock: the sudden appearance of a shanty town, sliced in two by the four-lane motorway.
Life on the Tracks is a humorous and heart-rending film which focuses on family life in a Filipino shanty town built either side of a railway track.
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A group of men were gathered in the swale between the shack and Shanty Town.
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