(n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
(n.) Same as Slimes.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(2) Age specific prevalence rates of leprosy after examining more than 80% of population from these colonies are compared with data derived from normal slums situated elsewhere in the city.
(3) The project is divided into units which cover a community block either in a rural or tribal village area or an urban slum.
(4) In others, Delhi’s slum-dwellers were left unacknowledged.
(5) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(6) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
(7) Meanwhile, millions of Ugandans suffer from malnutrition, slum housing, illiteracy, preventable diseases and a lack of clean drinking water.
(8) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
(9) I managed to raise eight grand.” Les Rencontres d'Arles 2016 review – twin towers and sub-Saharan slums Read more Soon, he was running his own independent techno label, Dead Elvis Records, and organising Deaf, an annual electronic music and arts festival in Dublin.
(10) A total of 106 rodents sera from slum Wat Phai Ton and slum Klong Toey were examined by immunofluorescent antibody assay during May to August 1990.
(11) The family lived near the Cité Soleil slum where hundreds, possibly thousands, have been stricken.
(12) There are families from Kutubdia who were once rich, with land and cows and boats, and now are living in slums and are beggars.
(13) It’s not enough at all,” said Araceli Belaez, 40, lining up for groceries at a supermarket in the Caracas slum of Catia.
(14) It was built by respecting highly restrictive norms that regulate construction activity in slums and for less than the average cost of construction in the area.
(15) The slums will be easier to shift out than the formal leaseholders, according to sources on the panel.
(16) At any rate, in 1984 the Israelis discovered an arms cache in the mosque he had built in the Jaurat slum where he now lived.
(17) Trained nutritionists visited 5 slum centers within 48 hours of the completion of the monthly weighing of the children.
(18) Point prevalence of 'High Risk' factors was assessed in 450 mothers of reproductive age group residing in two urban slum communities.
(19) A community-based family planning operations research project was undertaken in selected low income communities of Rio de Janeiro; this activity represented the 1st attempt to obtain contraceptive prevalence data in fanelos (slums) of Rio.
(20) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.
Suburb
Definition:
(n.) An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.
(n.) Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(2) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(3) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(4) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
(5) The early evening clashes brought a dramatic end to a day that had started off with three large funeral rallies through the suburbs of Manama.
(6) These units are situated in suburbs with a high population density.
(7) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
(8) Last night, the trouble spread to the mainly Asian suburb of Manningham, an area of sprawling and deprived terraced housing estates.
(9) An investigation of maintenance, usage, and coliform status of water in 104 domestic swimming pools in 13 Brisbane suburbs was made in January, 1978.
(10) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
(11) Its incidence, in our environment, has greatly increased during the last years being endemic in many large cities and their surrounding suburbs.
(12) The 1,127 killed at Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar are among at least 1,800 Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed in fires or building collapses since 2005.
(13) Cape Town was conceived with a white-only centre, surrounded by contained settlements for the black and coloured labour forces to the east, each hemmed in by highways and rail lines, rivers and valleys, and separated from the affluent white suburbs by protective buffer zones of scrubland,” he says.
(14) The 14 mothers living in the low-density suburbs of Milton Park, Queensdale, Avondale, and Borrowdale had a higher socioeconomic status and a higher educational status than the other mothers.
(15) Pamela is grateful for the family's financial security, aware that she and David have come a long way together since they met more than 20 years ago at the Winnock Hotel disco in Drymen, just outside the well-heeled Bearsden suburb of Glasgow.
(16) Yet the Attorney General seems to have delayed the announcement of this decision despite knowing the conclusions.” Protests erupted on the streets of Ferguson, a small northern suburb of St Louis, after Brown’s death in August.
(17) I talked to an elderly woman who had travelled from a suburb more than 30km away to show her support.
(18) Inshira’h lives in a village outside Kassala town, in the suburb of Fidiaeb.
(19) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
(20) But as developing the sprawling suburbs has been the guiding planning principle for decades, there is little expertise in neither the public nor the private sector to all of a sudden begin building urban neighbourhoods.