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Example sentences for: slum

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Among the cop's observations: An arrest is like a "blind date" (you spend hours asking the perp personal questions, then you hold his hands to fingerprint him), most police work consists of "cheesy collars" for disorderly conduct and public urination, slum residents adore cops.
All of us agreed that the 1970s were a slum of a decade.
Before the Revolution, royal officials and other wealthy folk lived here, but in the 19th century it became a crowded slum as immigrants — Irish, Jewish, Portuguese, and Italian — poured into the district.
In a transformation no less dramatic than the Harbourfront, the hippy slum of the 1960s has been refurbished into a chic neighborhood of fashionable boutiques, art galleries, sidewalk cafés, gourmet restaurants, and colorfully repainted old houses.
She was about to run out of means to pay back those loans when she took a job at the Inner City Law Center in Los Angeles, a firm that fights slum landlords.