shantytown
IPA: ʃˈæntitaʊn
noun
- An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
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Examples of "shantytown" in Sentences
- This area once was a shantytown.
- In the story Sooky lives in a shantytown.
- The shantytown example consists of about 120 elements.
- The Joads continue on to a Hooverville a squalid shantytown.
- The estern all area was turned into a shantytown and rubbish tip.
- Laroui lived with her parents and her two small children in a shantytown.
- A shantytown grew in the west end of the city along the Mississippi River.
- A recreation of an early New Zealand settlement can be found at Shantytown.
- As a Yale student, I can assure you that this "shantytown" was nothing more than a three-man tent and a card table.
- For someone like Jakes, everyone from a beleaguered president in the White House to a malnourished Kenyan boy in a shantytown is tugging at his cuffs.
- Carlos Ezquival Acme Street Artist Museu de Favela is trying to turn the shantytown, which is home to more than 20,000 people, into a popular destination.
- Police raiding a favela, or shantytown, in Rio on Jan. 11 confiscated crack rocks in packaging emblazoned with the face of Ronaldinho, one of Brazil's most prominent stars.
- The size of this "shantytown" should be viewed not as a symbol of USAS's difficulties but as proof that college students remain as ideologically diverse as ever and that most students are not easily swayed by the rhetoric of this latest student-activism fad.
- "shantytown" has formed under a bridge linking Miami to Miami Beach because various laws prohibit sexual offenders from living within 2500 feet of various things, and the bridge is the only piece of property in the county that lies outside the 2500 foot radius.
- A “shantytown” has formed under a bridge linking Miami to Miami Beach because various laws prohibit sexual offenders from living within 2500 feet of various things, and the bridge is the only piece of property in the county that lies outside the 2500 foot radius.