Example sentences for: crime-ridden

How can you use “crime-ridden” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And now an imaginative but severely crime-ridden neighborhood in Minneapolis is threatening to ask President Clinton to declare their district a federal disaster area on the grounds that state and local authorities can't or won't cope with their long-running problems.

  • Young adults, like Mary T., a jobless mother of three, trying desperately to keep her kids out of trouble in a crime-ridden neighborhood.

  • By the 1960s, even the memory of flourishing towns like Hurston's Eatonville had been erased, replaced by crime-ridden ghettoes that '60s radicals tried to palm off as the only legitimate black experience.


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