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Meanings of slums in English
Usage of slums in English
1
By far the greatest growth will be in slums, by current estimates.
2
Thousands of children attend primary schools that are little better than slums.
3
I would better have left you in the slums in San Francisco.
4
I wasn't looking for the slums; I was paying a business call.
5
The people in the slums are at greater risk, Agustiono told Reuters.
6
The idea of the slow drive through the slums was my mother's.
7
Sometimes the sinners were from up-town and the saints from the slums.
8
To reduce childhood mortality, extra emphasis is needed on the urban slums.
9
Therefore, the logical place to look for subversion is in the slums.
10
The slums have no legal electricity, no sewerage and no running water.
11
In the back slums of this region there were no bright gas-lights.
12
If cholera is raging in the slums, the suburbs will not escape.
13
They lived in dirty houses situated in miserable parts of the slums.
14
A little wise thoughtfulness may vastly improve the childhood of the slums.
15
It was a cleaner period in some ways- aperioddevoid of slums.
16
Everywhere people were pushing one another into the slums or the country.
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United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
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