Sample Sentences forsqualor (editor-reviewed)
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To meet her today, you would never guess she lived in squalor as a child.squalor = extremely dirty and unpleasant living conditions
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While my living conditions are not what I would like, they are far better than the kind of squalor I read of in Charles Dickens novels.
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Our generation does not know the squalor of our great grandparents' generation.
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Out there in J. Grimes Everett's land there's nothing but sin and squalor. (source)squalor = dirtiness and unpleasantness
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She felt hypnotized by the squalor but Marta and her mother didn't seem the least bit embarrassed. (source)squalor = extremely dirty and unpleasant living conditions
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He looked as if he'd been holding that posture for some time, contemplating the squalor. (source)
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The squalor had at last reached its fingers into Emerald Drive itself, and the once-celebrated promenade was now indistinguishable from the scum-heavy streets around it. (source)squalor = dirtiness and unpleasantness
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He would have preferred a more congenial spot, but, as usually happens, in place of a romantic field or solemn aisle for his tale, it was told while they walked up and down over a floor littered with rotten cabbage-leaves, and amid all the usual squalors of decayed vegetable matter and unsaleable refuse.† (source)
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Inside in that squalor? Why, I'll just bet you anything that place is acrawl with black widows. (source)squalor = an extremely dirty and unpleasant place
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Existence becomes a grinding effort, guided by belly-hunger and the almost desperate need to divert awareness from the squalors to the pleasures, to lose oneself in sex or drink or dope or gut-religion or gluttony or the incoherence of falsity; and in some instances in the higher pleasures of music, art, literature, though these usually deepen perceptions rather than dull them, and can be unbearable; they present a world that is ordered, sane, disciplined to felicity, and the contrast of that world to theirs increases the pain of theirs.† (source)
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"Are you at all acquainted with squalor?" I said not exactly but that I was getting better acquainted with it, in one form or another, all the time, (source)Squalor = filth -- especially a place that is extremely dirty and unpleasant
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The young man had known the horrors of its most primitive housekeeping, and the dreary squalor of that level of society which does not rebel at the companionship of hens. (source)
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I leave a place of degradation and squalor, the likes of which I will never experience again.† (source)
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He waved his stubby fingers, taking in all the waterfront squalor.† (source)
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I think they gloried in my squalor as proof of my baseness.† (source)
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It is alarming how quickly one descends into squalor.† (source)
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