squalor - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • slum: Every time we lift one child above the squalor of the slums?
  • place: She's shocked by the sheer squalor of the place.
  • infection: In the squalor of the intensive chicken house infections spread like wildfire.

Converse of subject

  • surround: What's the point of being a vision of glamor every morning if you then spend the day surrounded by squalor?

Converse of object

  • see: We spoke to them and saw the squalor and the problems that they faced.
  • like: Am a tidy freak by nature, hate mess and she seems to like squalor.
  • bring: Drug problems bring untold squalor and misery to countless homes.

Adjective modifier

  • urban: In this way, what could be urban squalor is rendered almost regal, certainly distinguished.
  • public: Nick Cohen: Well, we already have our private affluence and public squalor.
  • utter: The throb of the head together with the utter squalor of the cave.
  • moral: Their lives are often made worse by the moral squalor resulting from the collapse of stable family life.
  • general: The general squalor which I was apt to cultivate was also a symbol of revolt against Henry's standards.
  • such: He worried about the materialistic nature of nineteenth-century civilization and the way in which it could create such squalor.

Noun used with modifier

  • city: When we lived in inner city squalor we hung it from the lounge window ( 4th floor ) during Euro 2004.

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