How to Use slumlord in a Sentence

slumlord

noun

• There used to be a slumlord bar on the corner called Eileen’s Reno Bar.
  — Andrew Marzoni, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Rico said Rafiq is no slumlord, and in fact lives in the building.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2022
• Arrow defends the people, Lantern sides with the slumlord.
  — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Fight the slumlord who waffled about selling the building.
  — Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• Rashaed is the second slumlord who the city filed a receivership action against.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
• The story takes place in a ghetto where a slumlord is evicting poor black people.
  — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Some investors say the scheme turned them into unwitting slumlords.
  — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2019
• Trump treated the NATO leaders like a slumlord who, to justify raising the rent, points to his tenants’ lavish spending habits.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 26 May 2017
• He was involved in fighting slumlords and running campaigns to combat drunk driving.
  — Diana Marcum, latimes.com, 10 June 2017
• Contrary to what Jacobs said about Reno motel owners, Mead hardly fits the definition of a slumlord.
  — David Calvert, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2021
• Rashaed is the second major Milwaukee slumlord to lose control of his properties since 2016.
  — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018
• Rashaed and the city have long been at odds, as the slumlord has at times failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in delinquent property taxes and fines for building code violations.
  — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2018
• But for years, a notorious slumlord who controlled the property wouldn't even let residents spruce up their own units.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet and Austin Steele, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
• Two years ago, the Journal Sentinel disclosed the practice in a series of stories that showed various methods that landlords and slumlords used to game the system and avoid paying their fines.
  — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2018
• Better a fighter pilot than a slumlord, a factory hand than a reality TV star.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
• Perhaps one day, over a cup of tea at your kitchen table, one of them told you about her harrowing journey across the ocean from a poor country far away to find refuge in a cramped, barely furnished apartment in Chicago, owned by a slumlord.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• Bannon bashed his enemy, Trump’s son-in-law and nationwide slumlord Jared Kushner.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 16 Jan. 2018
• In 2003, lawmakers approved a measure that opponents, only somewhat in jest, referred to as a slumlord protection act.
  — Alan Judd, ajc, 19 June 2022
• But as Max points out in his summation, Dalton also made those millions as a slumlord, charging black people more and refusing to rent to them beyond their segregated enclave.
  — Gary Younge, The New York Review of Books, 1 Oct. 2020
• The Journal Sentinel profiled Rashaed's empire in 2016 as part of an ongoing investigation of slumlords and problem landlords.
  — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2018
• Require inspections of rental units to address unhealthy housing, rather than relying on tenants to complain and face possible eviction by slumlords.
  — Katherine Sayre, NOLA.com, 4 May 2018
• For decades, out-of-state property investors and slumlords have been able to hide their identities behind LLCs in particular, and shirk responsibility for problems at their rentals.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Now his company has become a slumlord of sorts throughout Southern California.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 10 June 2017
• He was also accused of being a slumlord and has faced multiple lawsuits from tenants in his many Southern California properties.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• As one of the greatest slumlords in America who benefited from privilege and got into a great college because of his connections, Kushner is basically Trump with slightly better hair.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 24 July 2017
• The city's efforts were delayed by numerous legal maneuvers by Rashaed and Halbrooks, who as an assistant city attorney prosecuted slumlords and problem landlords.
  — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2018
• Ginger Hitzke, an affordable housing developer in Solana Beach, California, attempted to rehouse people displaced by the demolition of a slumlord’s apartments in the 1990s.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
• There’s the notorious advertisement labeling primary opponent Scott Wagner a deadbeat dad and a slumlord.
  — Julian Routh, Philly.com, 7 May 2018
• Donald Trump, the slumlord turned reality television reject currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
  — Kirsten West Savali, Essence, 18 June 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024