How to Use shantytown in a Sentence

shantytown

noun

• Plumes of smoke rose from a blaze in a hillside shantytown.
  — Max Bearak, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• In the 2- or 3-foot gap between the metal and the wall sat a long makeshift shantytown with a web of tarps, chairs and cardboard.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2020
• The film takes place in a shantytown constructed on a garbage dump on the outskirts of Tokyo.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 2 Feb. 2018
• The town of Bria tails off into a refugee camp that is a seething shantytown of one-room structures spread over the hills.
  — Roger Cohen Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
• With the shantytown long gone, the homeless piled onto the streets of a Skid Row that was forcibly contained to 50 square blocks.
  — Tori Richards, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
• To the south, cardboard shantytowns slump miserably in the dust.
  — Julia Scheeres, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2001
• Most had to walk hours more, through torrential downpours, to reach the refugee shantytown.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2017
• Their shantytown, hidden from view by walls and closed to most visitors, is the envy of Skid Row.
  — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• Shoot-outs in favelas, or shantytowns, have killed dozens of people.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• Residents of Complexo de Alemão, a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, have no such cause for cheer.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Killings in Rocinha, once the showcase shantytown in Brazil’s showcase city, had quadrupled in less than a year.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
• At the hotel gate, a man from the shantytown across the street was sharpening knives for the hotel’s kitchen, a weekly assignment that earned him $3.
  — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
• The shantytown’s concentric bands of humanity can be read in the same way scientists like Hessl read the rings of a pine tree.
  — Russ Juskalian, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
• For someone used to only a muddy shantytown, this can be life changing,’’ Muir says.
  — National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2016
• People crowded into slums, shantytowns and favelas from where they were hard put to reach jobs.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• The rich traverse the skies in private jets, while the poor struggle in favelas, the shantytowns that have come to symbolize the city’s impoverished.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• Days later, Malawians living among South Africans in a shantytown in the coastal city of Durban were attacked and displaced.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• A few miles north, in a shantytown in the foothills, two young men described another option: buying a kidney.
  — Gerry Shih, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
• One of the largest shantytowns once occupied the concrete channel in the Tijuana River, but the police burned it down.
  — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
• Perhaps the shantytown’s most memorable structure was the Hunger Wall, which served as a backdrop for the encampment’s city hall.
  — Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2020
• The hurricane had destroyed their homes, located in the sprawling shantytown in Marsh Harbour known as the Mudd.
  — New York Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• Skid Row, located in downtown Los Angeles, was born in 1910 when the city built a shantytown to house migrants.
  — Tori Richards, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
• Lesser known is a shantytown in a corner of Gangnam district, whose makeshift homes were destroyed by a fire on Friday.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• In time the area also gave rise to an illicit shantytown replete with bars, brothels and trafficked young girls.
  — Kevin Monahan, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2022
• Many of these immigrants, known as Mizrahi Jews, were sent to shantytown transit camps and largely sidelined.
  — Aron Heller, Jewish Journal, 5 July 2017
• But as the Kurdish refugee from Iran quickly realized, dreams and despair were intertwined in the shantytown known as the Jungle.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• In Cape Town’s sprawling shantytowns, where about 15% of the city’s residents live, lining up for water is nothing new.
  — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2018
• Memon said her husband is a truck driver and the family lives in an urban shantytown.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2018
• At its high point, 350 people lived in tents sprawling under the overpass, creating a shameful shantytown in the middle of one of the world’s richest cities.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2018
• Unable to squeeze into the four acres, hundreds of Guarani have spilled into adjacent shantytowns.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024