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Example sentences for: ghetto

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Lonely Planet rails against this ghetto safari mentality, chastising, "If you're too scared to go on your own, stay in Midtown."
Perhaps the most important difference between people who live in the ghetto and those who live outside it is that most of the former aren't employed.
The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)
Black players feel that white owners don't respect them and are treating them as ghetto thugs who don't deserve their high salaries.
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.