How to Use slum in a Sentence

slum

1 of 2 noun

• He grew up in the slums of New York.
• The person in the slum doesn’t have the money to go to a school.
  — Diana Tsai, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• Other tech firms have come to the Dreams slum as part of the Favela 3D project.
  — Angelica Mari, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
• Then the train passes a slum, where a boy stands barefoot on the side of the road.
  — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020
• When the ship docks in Alexandria, Bella sees the slum poor.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• In the narrow alleys of the Karachi slums, the police move through homes, day and night.
  — Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• The housing projects and this slum merge to the east of our neighborhood.
  — Mariana Enriquez, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Putin spoke like a gangster, like a gopnik, like someone from the Leningrad slums.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• In 1954, the state of Maryland declared this neighborhood to be a slum.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2022
• This takes her to the city’s slum areas, where gang violence is rife.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
• In 2010, three of her six children were crushed to death in their home in a downtown slum during the earthquake.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• Not everyone thought this slum clearance to be a good idea.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2022
• The study found that 16% were from urban slum areas, and the rest from other urban areas.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• It’s paired down close quarters combat in an inescapable slum, and the hits feel so real your own body will start to hurt.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2021
• More than half of Mumbai's slum residents might have had Covid-19.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 13 Aug. 2020
• One of those projects was an elevated train line in a Caracas slum called Petare.
  — William Neuman, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2022
• The viewer floats over slums, a strip mine, an artisanal sulfur mine.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The block grant can also be used to eliminate slum and blight in the city, Grover said, but the council has yet to decide how the money will be spent.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 1 Apr. 2021
• The names and house numbers of slum dwellers who are showcasing Covid symptoms are noted down.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 10 June 2021
• Anita is a slum-dwelling Christian in the megalopolis of Karachi, Pakistan.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• As a fan of the coach, the January slum, every freaking year, is angering many fans.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
• The Guryong slum has long been seen as a symbol of the gap between rich and poor in South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
• In the urban slum areas, people have access to fresh water only twice a day in the morning and evening.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• There is a lot of gang activity in these different slums in Lagos and a lot of gang wars as well.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
• In May, a police raid on another Rio favela killed 23 people, and last year, a shootout in a third slum left at least 29 people dead.
  — Marina Lopes, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• Two-thirds of the city’s population lived in abject poverty in slums built in medieval times.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 26 Dec. 2023
• The unemployed would be put to work in slum clearance, road building and other public works projects.
  — Michael Bernick, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• There’s even one in 23 de Enero, a huge, desperately poor slum.
  — Alex Vasquez, Bloomberg.com, 4 Oct. 2020
• In Havana’s slums, a woman’s violent domestic ordeal turns public when a video goes viral.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
• Ideally, every city, school, hospital and home will reserve a certain percentage of land for nature so that all people—even those living in high-rise buildings or slums—have access to it.
  — Joyeeta Gupta, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024

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slum

2 of 2 verb

• He sometimes likes to go slumming in bars around the city.
• Along with goths, drag queens, rockers, leather boys and slumming socialites, the Limelight became the home to the ’90s club kid moment.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• The already legendary guitarist gets extra kudos for slumming it and taking the tube to The O2, rather than a limo.
  — Richard Smirke, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2020
• Repeatedly slumming it in the NIT isn’t what anyone signed up for.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
• Auntie calls her a poser out to slum it with the blue-collars, an accusation Mildred answers with a slap.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• No matter how huffy the establishment gets about members slumming in Trumpworld, don’t expect the holier-than-thou act to last for more than a heartbeat after said members return to the fold.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
• Toffs in the Tory party who despise liberal meddlers had the momentum at last behind their cause, as well as the thrill of slumming it with boisterous blue-collar types.
  — Tina Brown, Time, 6 June 2019
• Abby’s beloved grandfather (Ron Cephas Jones, slumming it) gives her an old-fashioned wooden advent calendar.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
• The reasons vary — scripts change, directors don’t share the actors’ visions, studio executives meddle, actors slum for a payday, whatever.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2021
• He sometimes likes to go slumming in bars around the city.
• Along with goths, drag queens, rockers, leather boys and slumming socialites, the Limelight became the home to the ’90s club kid moment.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• The already legendary guitarist gets extra kudos for slumming it and taking the tube to The O2, rather than a limo.
  — Richard Smirke, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2020
• Repeatedly slumming it in the NIT isn’t what anyone signed up for.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
• Auntie calls her a poser out to slum it with the blue-collars, an accusation Mildred answers with a slap.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• No matter how huffy the establishment gets about members slumming in Trumpworld, don’t expect the holier-than-thou act to last for more than a heartbeat after said members return to the fold.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
• Toffs in the Tory party who despise liberal meddlers had the momentum at last behind their cause, as well as the thrill of slumming it with boisterous blue-collar types.
  — Tina Brown, Time, 6 June 2019
• Abby’s beloved grandfather (Ron Cephas Jones, slumming it) gives her an old-fashioned wooden advent calendar.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
• The reasons vary — scripts change, directors don’t share the actors’ visions, studio executives meddle, actors slum for a payday, whatever.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024