How to Use inner city in a Sentence
inner city
noun- The mayor is trying to attract new businesses to the inner city.
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So what drew me to that role is my mom being that same woman, raising her child in the inner city and wanting more for her children.
— Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024 -
For me, that’s one of the big issues, coming from the inner city.
— Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019 -
Just a bunch of great cheat codes that could help people who live in the inner city.
— Ruth Reichl, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022 -
Sports were a chance for kids in the inner cities to get out of town and break the cycle of poverty and gangs.
— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 1 June 2024 -
That a boy with no skin in the game is traveling to the inner city to protect it?
— Raven Smith, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021 -
The same is often true of activist elites who live far from the inner city.
— Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 24 Sep. 2020 -
Both of us, from inner city L.A., were hooked the first time those cars roared by at nearly 200 mph.
— Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2021 -
The Davies' mother was among the Londoners who left the inner city to start over in the suburbs.
— Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022 -
And e-pedicabs could replace most taxi trips in the inner city.
— Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2020 -
Quilen Blackwell wants to fill the inner city with flowers.
— Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022 -
What has to happen in Chicago, and not just inner cities.
— Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018 -
Pham is from the inner city of Las Vegas, born to a single-parent home.
— Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022 -
That being said, kids in the inner city don’t have access to that training.
— New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021 -
Hodges has always made racial inclusion and serving the inner city a theme of the church.
— al, 12 June 2020 -
So when his shift was over, Trooper Morris cruised to their playground, in the inner city.
— Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2021 -
To play touch football, kids need a football and a street or parking lot, of which there are plenty in the inner city.
— Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2018 -
But at the end of the day, the little kid in the inner city, a little kid who was going five miles over the speed limit, should not fear for his life.
— Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020 -
The show takes a comedic approach toward issues in inner city schools.
— Lynnette Mawhinney, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2022 -
That’s my goal, to help inner city kids go on and get a college scholarship through their sport.
— John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019 -
The actress talks about the show's unique portrayal of inner city life through the lens of the Flenory family.
— Admin, Essence, 30 Sep. 2021 -
The people who were money makers, and shakers, and bakers in the cities didn’t want to live in the inner city anymore.
— Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 15 Nov. 2023 -
Weston Urban has amassed more than 20 acres in the inner city.
— Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 16 Nov. 2020 -
It's located in [Houston's] inner city, where most of the first-time projects are being built.
— Ellen Paris, Forbes, 2 May 2022 -
What it’s done to inner city kids is nothing short of criminal.
— For The Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024 -
Segments of the West Side and the inner city went for far less time without electricity.
— Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2021 -
Blame it, if anything, on the limited options for young Black men growing up in the inner city.
— Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2021 -
How is that going to appeal even to the inner city folks who want a safe environment as well?
— Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018 -
The Gift’s Spring 2022 collection, which is inspired by the founder’s childhood in the inner city of Los Angeles.
— Greg Emmanuel, Essence, 29 Mar. 2022 -
Next, check out our favourite bottomless brunch venues around Sydney, from coastal to inner city.
— Melissa Mason, refinery29.com, 26 June 2024
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