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Sentence Examples For many of the young bucks in their scarlet tunics, what starts as a great imperial adventure ends in either a squalid death or captivity. The history of trade negotiations is littered with hypocritical rhetoric and squalid deals. Nobody comes well out of this squalid affair, but he emerges in a worse light than most. In squalid, solitary confinement, with only Grace Poole as her wardress, what wonder that she relapses? Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself. The sneak from behind the bicycle shed is preparing his most squalid betrayal of Britain yet. Instead it seems that it is mostly squalid and often dangerous, but out of sight, out of mind, except for those who live there. In that absence, he has remained silent, and this squalid pair will go down as mere footnotes of our collective bleak history. Like most early projects, it replaced an area of run-down, overcrowded, squalid dwellings on the fringes of the downtown area. He saw squalid settlements peppered with litter, tireless abandoned cars and children of impoverished natives beset by clouds of flies. Most of my close female single friends live in squalid flats and have difficulty scraping up the rent. Grimy back alley flophouses, squalid arcades lined with girlie nickelodeons and a neon-lined skid row lend the picture an air of authenticity. The pig farm is a squalid 10-acre patch of mud and dilapidated buildings in the town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Although conditions ran to the squalid, many immigrants preferred saving their earnings to living in comfort. Often induced by witnessing atrocities, the trauma's impact has been magnified by the effects of malnutrition and squalid living conditions. Over time, physical conditions in the East Anglian refuges have improved and accommodation is no longer squalid and over-crowded. The stereotype of students happy to share squalid, dingy flats is a thing of the past. As Western leaders become mired in squalid chaos, there is a noticeable lack of any honourable values shining through. For much of the 1990s, these 10,000-odd refugees lived in squalid conditions in Kenyan camps. Some 1.2 million people have been displaced so far and are forced to live in squalid camps set up by the army to protect them from abductions. Show More Sentences It was the abandoned children roaming the squalid streets that especially elicited her compassion. And it seems that when you outlaw the outward appearance of poverty, the poverty you find when you scratch the surface is much more squalid. He lives with five of his family in two tiny squalid rooms for which he pays 10,000 of the 15,000 dinars he earns a month. The move was designed to relieve people of the squalid living conditions, as well as to grant better access to hunting and fishing grounds. There are far fewer of the dismal and squalid student properties than there used to be. They stepped through the low front door and found that inside the house was as vile, odious and squalid as its owner. Today I accompanied two Axis artists to a happening in a squalid squatter camp in downtown Johannesburg. His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy. Unemployment in the squalid neighbourhoods where they live is double the national rate of 10 percent. Her career has made a spectacular recovery after what seemed like a squalid death spiral just a few short years ago. We got out and pushed till we came to a house, another bungalow, that was at once shockingly new and primevally squalid. Many of the city's residents who were able to leave the city are now concentrated in squalid refugee camps in surrounding regions. The focus must remain on supporting the needs of women and children and the planned repatriation of millions of refugees still languishing in squalid camps. Now he has been convicted, the anecdotes and personal testimonies stream out, so that reading the papers the following day felt pornographically squalid and terrifying. Her life became more and more squalid and her expectations diminished. Many spent years in squalid, disease-ridden refugee camps or shantytowns in Ethiopia or Kenya. These shots are pointedly contrasted with others photographed in the same vicinity, which make it look like a squalid contemporary junkyard. It failed, and Mr Dolci moved on with his ideals to the squalid fishing village of Trappeto in western Sicily. Let us talk momentarily about the sordid, squalid chronology of the Auberge Grand-Mère file. He shared domestic intimacies in conditions that the poorest people of today would consider utterly squalid and unacceptable. Show More Sentences For eight desperate, squalid weeks, these Canadians were poisoned by E. coli and hepatitis. In the densely populated working-class neighbourhoods of these cities, many of the dwellings were squalid. I supported the amendments in the hope that they might make this squalid compromise tolerable. We have to live in a squalid apartment and it's hard to wash because it's so crowded. He is incarcerated in a number of squalid and cramped jails with all types of persons that he tries to love. Even those who can find a job often live in squalid slums or hostels, isolated from their families. You were appointed through a process of rather squalid intergovernmental bargaining, which was not very impressive. Often on the street, some are accommodated in shelters, in squalid hotels or all kinds of squats. Overcrowding and squalid conditions, societal stigmatization and discrimination, and poorly trained staff heighten the risk of violence. The majority of the population of the district of Santa Cecila in the heart of São Paulo lives in squalid conditions. Today, there are more than 100,000 refugees living in squalid camps in Thailand. They are quite often living in squalid and overcrowded accommodation. Many of these girls rent rooms in squalid slums around the city. This is the filthy, squalid bedroom where five children were left slowly starving to death by their parents, while they got drunk and watched television downstairs. People in the mountains remain vulnerable with the winter closing in and there are also fears of disease spreading in squalid tent settlements that have sprouted in the towns. As a lowly GP working in the squalid inner city you might think I would support bleeding the middle class for few extra quid to take the pressure off local hospitals. Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers. Of course, the poorest could not afford this new accommodation, and many urban authorities were sweeping away the squalid slums on grounds of public health and safety. Jaycee Dugard, who was held captive for 18 years in a squalid series of tents by her abductor, who fathered her two children. Off to the sides, however, the Royal Mile disintegrated into a hopeless muddle of squalid wynds and alleyways peopled by beggars, pickpockets and the poor. Show More Sentences So Mandela was painfully slow in denouncing the squalid dictatorship of Robert Mugabe. Much of the communities swallowed by the expansion of the city and the construction of the Bois de Boulogne are squalid. As recent experience has shown, what it does do is increase the gap between rich and poor, pulling vast numbers of people away from the land into squalid urban slums. And the convention centre that became a squalid shelter in the chaotic days after the hurricane also reopened last week in an encouraging sign for the city's tourism industry. Mayberry had no banks, however, as squalid and rapacious as mine. He was desperately poor, living in squalid rooms that teemed with mice. Last year, 30 miles up the road from my constituency, more than 40 Hungarians were found working for less than £2 a day in a mattress factory in Dewsbury, and living in squalid conditions. Along the vast, squalid corridor of tiny bedrooms was a filthy kitchen. In 1867, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place. Many resisted and were killed on the spot while others died working or due to disease and malnutrition while living in squalid work camps. During and between conflicts, when hundreds of thousands of refugees are living in squalid and dangerous conditions, the various parties to the conflicts often attempt to exploit the refugees' vulnerabilities. We must not leave refugees and their families in camps or poor and squalid urban areas for endless periods of time, putting their lives on hold and with no other choice than to wait. Although it is home to seven million migrant workers, the capital appears to be without the squalid shantytowns that pockmark or ring other developing cities, like Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro. Often separated from their families and living in the squalid conditions in war zones, those children are greatly in need of psychological as well as physical intervention. Some have talked about the images of hundreds of thousands of refugees living in squalid conditions without any hope of returning to their homeland. Thinking he's having hallucinations about the people around him, and to help himself regain normal, banale objectivity, he starts filming them discreetly, like a thief, from the window of his squalid room. We saw children living in the most squalid conditions imaginable, open sewers, no basic sanitation, children who could not possibly remain healthy because of the health hazards. In any case, the prison camps were miserable places where food rations were meager and conditions squalid. In spite of everything, in spite of all our squalid excuses, the world as a whole is advancing towards a culture of peace, towards cultures in peace, towards peace through culture. In the squalid, unlit, toiletless bathroom, I poured cold water over myself with a bucket, soaped, and rinsed. Show More Sentences As I stood in the middle of the squalid Kara Tepe transit camp on Lesbos, I was struck by the utter perverseness of the refugee drama unfolding on this Greek island. The authors document the wealthy lifestyle of the privileged and, for contrast, quote affecting descriptions by Charles Dickens and others of the squalid and insanitary slums at the other end of town. But the message belies the squalid reality of Sri Lanka under his rule. He almost invariably writes about the unmoneyed, the unfashionable, the desperate and the disturbed, and sets his plays in low-rent or squalid climes. Thousands lost their homes and were resettled in squalid temporary camps. And was his overburdened K. G. B. paymaster, laboring in some squalid East End flat with the blinds down, perhaps behindhand with his photographing? In the novel, a supplement called C2 sends a highfaluting woman interviewer from London to write a patronising account of the heroine's squalid life in Bradford. By Winthrop Sargeant The New Yorker, March 14, 1959P. 91 The word referred to by psychologists as algolagnia means deriving a perverse joy from inflecting or submitting to the most squalid sort of human suffering. Hochelaga was far more impressive than the small and squalid village of Stadacona, and a crowd of over a thousand came to the river edge to greet the Frenchmen. Mumbai may be one of the most squalid cities on earth but it is also the proud possessor of a hotel that can hold its head high with any around the world. We bought some biscuits and chocolate which we ate sedulously as we wandered through the squalid streets where the families of the fishermen lived. Once again, Kiely details the streets and the alleys, the comfortable homes and the squalid hovels, the outlying country roads and hills, with veristic scrupulosity. Especially now, in a culture that rewards self-aggrandizement to such a warped degree that some people find even their most grotesquely squalid distinctions aggrandizable. Despite the squalid conditions the human spirit proves uncrushable. The majority are dictatorships and squalid, corrupt kleptocracies. Examples from Classical Literature It was the most squalid of Gretnas, bearding the decency and common-sense of a whole metropolis. These and the squalid back-door yards which run down to the bank do not 257 make up an attractive picture to the canoeist. Neither the squalid Picts nor the apish Atlanteans have any contact with other tribes or peoples. As there, the whites and Negros we saw were of the lowest, most squalid type of humanity. They had not that low, vicious, squalid, dirty look which the women at former periods have had when they first arrived. Hurrying to her squalid deathlair from gay Paris on the quayside I touched his hand. It was a squalid sight, though the festive season of the year and that glamourous air peculiar to Indiana brooded it. In both, there were several knots of loungers, squalid and miserable, but now with a manifest sense of power enthroned on their distress. Supremely squalid, sinisterly sebaceous, sombrely sociable Smell! Not that David had any reason for clinging to so squalid a hostel. It was a squalid hovel, and reeked of the earth out of which it was dug. I couldn't afford to die like a rat in a squalid hole like that. Staying hidden in that squalid room had made him wretched and homesick. The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning. But they were exploited every step of the way and home is now a squalid, unventilated basement outside the capital Amman. He divests himself of his shoes, loosens his cravat, and lies across the foot of the squalid bed, with his head resting on his left hand. She staggered the short distance from the Horn of Plenty pub to her one-room lodgings in squalid Miller's Court, off Dorset Street. Most of it is turgid, lumpy, fuzzy in texture, squalid in intellect. The poverty-stricken street, the squalid mob round the door, swam before his eyes. He saw the squalid tract of her vice, miserable and malodorous. Show More Sentences He looked very good-natured and prepossessing, though overpoweringly gay and free, in contrast with the squalid prison. But the drivers, through miles of dark squalid road, poured out their souls to the dryads and the saints, and Lucy poured out hers to her cousin. He found a squalid wine-shop in the quarter just below the Barbary Coast. Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid. We must also expunge the verse, which tells us how Pluto feared, Lest the mansions grim and squalid which the gods abhor should he seen both of mortals and immortals. Find more words! 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