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Example sentences for: slum

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

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.
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.
And many of her clients had medical problems from living in slum housing such as cockroaches lodged in ear canals and rat bite fever, a nonfatal malady that particularly affects children.
Police salaries being what they are, she lives in a comically tilted slum flat down by the railroad tracks, where deep in the night the titular conveyance roars by and sets the coffee cups a-rattling.
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.