How to Use squalor in a Sentence

squalor

noun

• I was shocked by the squalor of their surroundings.
• The family was living in squalor.
• And those are the people living in squalor on the streets.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Amid such profound squalor and chaos, the mice forgot how to be mice.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 19 June 2017
• A train gulf where men lived in squalor and trash — but away from prying eyes.
  — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 14 July 2017
• But, like Hole in the Wall, J’s showed persistence in its squalor.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• Last year, there was an outbreak of typhus in the squalor near skid row.
  — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2020
• The spread of hepatits was partly blamed on the squalor in which the homeless were living.
  — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 May 2018
• The vibrance and squalor of the city in the seventies is spread across these pictures like a greasy film.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019
• His pictures of urban squalor can still make the viewer smile, and think.
  — A.v. | New York, The Economist, 25 June 2019
• In the instance mentioned, the surrounding fuzz kneeled and prayed for the motherless – in the squalor of their hairy grief.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• To the Arntzens, each represents a different facet of squalor.
  — Curbed, 24 Oct. 2022
• The squalor on this block of Mission Street formed a stark contrast to the Warriors’ holiday cheer.
  — Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 25 Dec. 2019
• Experience both love and squalor, even if there is no Esme in your life.
  — WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• All this is in the middle of a cold, hard city that seems indifferent to urban squalor.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• Even in the camps, many end up living in squalor with little assistance.
  — Sam Mednick, The Seattle Times, 4 June 2017
• In one pick, fans of the worst teams in football can see the player who will lead them out of the squalor—or the one who will be the face of the team’s continued ignominy.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Through the squalor, cold, frozen tap water and constant threat of death, there was one warm constant — their mother’s love.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022
• Many were forced to wait in Matamoros, where about 1,000 people are living outdoors in squalor in a sprawling camp near the banks of the Rio Grande.
  — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2021
• Police found the children living in squalor while seeking a 12-year-old boy who had run away from home.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 16 May 2018
• Michael and his neighbors are living lives marked by despair and joy, squalor and dancing.
  — Teresa M. Pelham, courant.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Amid the squalor and lack of privacy, Naima Dimangadap wept.
  — Bloomberg.com, 31 May 2017
• Restoring order from squalor felt like a stab at inner peace.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2021
• There was scant welcome for them by the United States, just scenes of squalor and desperation.
  — New York Times, 27 Sep. 2021
• Taking in the squalor, the stench of unwashed bodies, and the poor health and vacant eyes of the hundreds of children held there, the group members appeared stunned.
  — Ginger Thompson, ProPublica, 16 July 2019
• It was hailed as a possible turning point for those living in squalor.
  — latimes.com, 29 May 2018
• In fact, Legasov would have lived in an entirely different kind of squalor than the fireman did.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 June 2019
• Now the park offers not much of either, persisting as an island of squalor.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2018
• Of course, extended visions of squalor and despair would have worked against this cinematic ode to those who dream of the future.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 May 2024
• This isn’t to say that the Vanderpump Rules cast are necessarily living in squalor.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024