shantytown

How To Use shantytown In A Sentence

• In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
• sordid shantytowns
• shantytown" has formed under a bridge linking Miami to Miami Beach because various laws prohibit sexual offenders from living within 2500 feet of various things, and the bridge is the only piece of property in the county that lies outside the 2500 foot radius. Libertarian Blog Place
• Laroui lived with her parents and her two small children in a shantytown. Rachel Newcomb: One Moroccan Woman's Fiery Protest
• Yet Cohan admits he writes from a position of ‘utter privilege’ and it's something to see a side of Mexico that isn't all shantytowns and bandidos.
• They prodded authorities to raze the hundreds of alley shantytowns housing the city's poor and destitute.
• Her ethnography is the result of more than a decade of fieldwork done in the 1990s in one of Rio's urban shantytown communities.
• As the erstwhile global village goes heteropolar, it is coming to resemble something akin to a patchwork of gated communities surrounded by seething seas of shantytowns. Embassy
• I'm 22, engaged to the man of my dreams and I'm hoping that I can find a job before I'm forced to live in a shantytown of boxes.
• Thousands of Inca mummies were found at an ancient cemetery under a shantytown near Lima in 2002.