Phrases with «shantytown»

A shantytown is a poor area where people live in temporary and makeshift houses. Full definition

Sentences with «shantytown»

  • Squatters in shantytowns in Africa and Asia now are linked by the Internet through a network of «Shack Dweller» associations, through which they trade information on common issues. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
  • Instead of blinking back on land, though, she plunges through the lower clouds and into a floating shantytown of impoverished laborers and near - defeated rebels, revealing in one stroke a world she'll have to explore and a people she'll have to save. (kidfenris.com)
  • Not far away, dusty - faced migrant workers and their families, as well as homeless people, live in vast shantytowns — rows of tents, and shopping carts, sofas and bicycles strewn about. (discovermagazine.com)
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