Example sentences for: ghetto

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

  • Narrow streets southeast of the Campo de’ Fiori take you to the Jewish Ghetto near the ruins of the ancient Roman Theater of Marcellus (Teatro di Marcello), architectural model for the Colosseum.

  • Among the corners of town far from the crowd, the old Jewish Ghetto (northeast of the railway station) is particularly peaceful and reveals a fascinating page of Venetian history.

  • Italian Protestants fled and Jews in Rome were restricted to a ghetto (50 years later than the Venice ghetto, Europe’s first) and expelled from Genoa and Lucca.

  • A heroic uprising in 1943, led by poorly armed Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, lasted a month until Nazi reinforcements annihilated it and reported back to Germany that “Warsaw’s Jewish quarter has ceased to exist.”

  • According to a report in South Africa's Cape Times , members of the "Americans" gang in the poor Cape Town ghetto of Hanover Park said they wished Bill Clinton had visited them last week, because he would have seen that life in Los Angeles was "the same as life here."


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