They overflow a squalid city without schools, hospitals, community centers, parks, sidewalks or street lights.

Forced from his idyllic rural home, the peasant-along with his family-moves to the crowded, squalid city to find a job in a mill plant.

The squalid mid-19th-century city portrayed in Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" is historically accurate.

Thousands stood on building ledges and rooftops in the squalid, sprawling city of 12 million.

He savored that delicious possibility hungrily, but then his eye opened once more, and he glared out over the squalid city.

Since the Red Pox, large parts of the old, squalid city had been rebuilt by the Princes of Miragliano.

"Another black mark against this squalid city!"

Countless posters bearing a bright red hammer and sickle are plastered on the lampposts, doorways and walls of this squalid city.

I disliked the squalid cities of Earth.