How to Use skid row in a Sentence

skid row

noun

• The attack comes in the wake of a spasm of violence in skid row.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• Last year, there was an outbreak of typhus in the squalor near skid row.
  — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2020
• As seen in the film, the middle-aged Moore was inspired to perfect these skid row toasts.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2019
• Tall and languorous, he was known to meander with a cane down the streets of Fort Worth’s skid row.
  — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2022
• But the business closed just as the population of skid row boomed.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• The streets of skid row have long languished in an urban quagmire of trash, tents and neglect.
  — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2021
• The singer, who has defied health mandates before, plans stops on skid row and at a tent city in Echo Park.
  — Nita Lelyveld, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• Back on skid row, the Union Rescue Mission has already held its main event.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• This Christmas tale about a yuppie’s descent to skid row is pitch black.
  — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• To Raines, the people living on skid row are like family.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022
• Appeals court strikes down order to house people on L.A.'s skid row.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• Encampments have swelled from skid row a few blocks away to line sidewalks outside city hall.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
• The next day, 62-year-old Dwayne Fields was killed after someone set fire to his tent outside the Midnight Mission on skid row.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Not so long ago, the West Loop was known as one of America’s most notorious skid rows.
  — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 6 Oct. 2017
• The terms apply only to skid row and surrounding streets downtown.
  — Dakota Smith, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
• Another idea is to set up a shuttle to drive people from skid row to its existing sites a few miles away.
  — Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
• Business is sluggish at a skid row floral shop where nerdish Seymour and his crush Audrey work.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
• For six days Richard Dever sat in his tiny fifth-floor apartment on skid row, desperate for some fresh air.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• Mercy Housing is looking to start construction in July on a 92-unit project in L.A.’s skid row area.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• Colorful past: From skid row to cultural district, the making of Mass Ave.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2018
• Homeless camps, including the large one in the city’s skid row district, develop their own cultures.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
• The order gave the city and county 180 days to house homeless people on skid row and to audit any spending related to the crisis of people living on the streets.
  — NBC News, 23 Sep. 2021
• The skid row setting, though not a central element of Dane Laffrey’s scenic design, has seeped into the actors’ bones.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• Los Angeles really clear skid row and offer shelter to all those living on the streets?
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
• Myers went a step further, pointing out that one of the L.A. Alliance’s members just inked a $2-billion development deal on the edge of skid row.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
• My grandfather was a skid row alcoholic and depression runs in my genes.
  — Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
• The squat three-story brick box was built for a candy manufacturer on the block between Hawthorn and Second streets, around the corner from what then was skid row.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
• One of the largest urban renewal projects in the United States, more than 200 buildings were felled, many of them skid row flophouses, saloons and pawnshops.
  — Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• The city lost several civil rights lawsuits over police crackdowns on skid row.
  — Gale Holland, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• If the plan holds, Silveria’s picture may go up beside some 30 others on a gallery of success stories pinned to a wall in the county outreach office on 6th Street in the heart of skid row.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024