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Example sentences for: squalor

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Flem rises from rural squalor, getting a job as a clerk at Varner's store in Frenchman's Bend, then taking over the store, then moving to the town of Jefferson.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. describes returning to Africa 25 years after his first visit: He is stunned by the squalor.
An Indian doctor/author describes the impossibility of practicing medicine in India--too much squalor, too few supplies, and 25,000 cases of rabies a year.
Many of these babies grow up in squalor and themselves become dependent denizens of the welfare culture.
There is squalor aplenty.