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    Use "shantytown" in a sentence

    shantytown example sentences

    shantytown


    1. Night is settling over the shantytown as the taillights of the Rover -- it’s chassis loaded down with hooch


    2. Hugging the coastline with blue sky above, a sign pointed to Shantytown, ten kilometres before Greymouth


    3. He and Nyreea would certainly not be witnessing this had they not violated the quarantine, as what they witnessed here would be below the horizon of ShantyTown, and with hill country in between


    4. As with all other streets throughout ShantyTown, this particular stretch was lined with monotonous, ramshackle hovels; crowded shoulder to shoulder like the lame and decrepit huddled in the food line


    5. But as there was no space for anything new in ShantyTown, and vertical construction was impossible given the resources at hand, they’d typically just patch or prop or partition their teetering shacks, struggling to extend the grim serviceability of what little they had


    6. She could hardly tell them that no one abided the sector restrictions internal to ShantyTown, even though the Viirin were surely well aware of it


    7. The near-elders were the closest thing there was to internal governance in ShantyTown; it was never thought odd that there were no true adults here in the ghetto, because it had always been that way


    8. The stench was horrific, worse even then the latrine pits in ShantyTown


    9. Now ShantyTown was emptying out fast, with runners headed to the other ghettos to spread the news


    10. slave shantytown that looked as if it were tacked on as an afterthought

    11. As she drew near the path that led down through the bare trees into the creek bottom where the Shantytown settlement was, she clucked to the horse to quicken his speed


    12. Men went by Shantytown with their pistols loosened in their holsters and nice women never willingly passed it, even under the protection of their men, for usually there were words


    13. As long as she had Archie beside her, Scarlett had not given Shantytown a thought, because not even the most impudent negro woman dared laugh in her presence


    14. Shantytown and the woods about her were dark


    15. Because you went gallivantin’ Kennedy and the other men are out tonight to kill that thar nigger and that thar white man, if they can catch them, and wipe out that whole Shantytown settlement


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    "shantytown" definitions

    a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties