SLUM in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for SLUM, such as:

1. There are bad girls in your slums.
2. She started for home, through the small slum.
3. Wherever as many as three houses are gathered there will be a slum of at least one house.
4. Many social workers have attempted to ameliorate the conditions of people living in the slums.
5. We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLUM
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slum
 n.  a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
Classic Sentence:
1  Wherever as many as three houses are gathered there will be a slum of at least one house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  She started for home, through the small slum.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  Instead he had come to America, where he lived in a garret room in this slum district, and made volcanic energy take the place of fire.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
4  We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded gilt nineteen-hundreds.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  A Negro slum may be in dangerous proximity to a white residence quarter, while it is quite common to find a white slum planted in the heart of a respectable Negro district.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  There are bad girls in your slums.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  The invitation was from a man named Fisher, a Chicago millionaire who had given up his life to settlement work, and had a little home in the heart of the city's slums.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
8  We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
9  There can be no doubt that crime among Negroes has sensibly increased in the last thirty years, and that there has appeared in the slums of great cities a distinct criminal class among the blacks.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence:
1  The insects are found everywhere, from the homes of the wealthiest industrialists to the lowliest slum dweller.
2  You also have to imagine that in an odd mongrel accent of Sicilian born and raised, but learned English in a Scottish slum.
3  Well-to-do people praise Prince Muhammad for ridding Awamiyah of a slum infested by gun-toting criminals, which appealed to landless peasants in Eastern Province.
4  Many social workers have attempted to ameliorate the conditions of people living in the slums.
5  The centerpiece is a boat ride through an elaborate interactive stage set of picturesque slums and their associated smells, to conjure up an illusion of real Victorian life - and misery.
6  Mother Teresa earned fame and accolades over a lifetime spent working with the poor and the sick, and with orphans, lepers and AIDS patients, first in the slums of Kolkata, India, and then in many other countries.