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Example sentences for: shanty-town

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The cities’ shanty-town districts are often directly in the shadow of the shining skyscrapers, built by the shanty-town residents themselves.
The slums are eventually knock-ed down to make way for new tower-blocks — a new suburb is created, yet another shanty-town springs up beyond it, and Istanbul spreads out a little farther.