"colony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is evident also in the huge squatter colonies that have been created by urban migration and whose residents subsist, in some cases, by picking through vast garbage dumps for scraps.
- The majority of these children are from the slums, squatter colonies, railway platforms and red light areas.
- The family now lives in the wretchedness of Tajabad, one of Peshawar's many squatter colonies that teem with Afghan refugees.
- The police accuse gangsters of using the squatter colony to mount armed robberies and ambush policemen.
- According to the Unicef study, nearly one-fourth of all city dwellers in the Philippines now live in slums and squatter colonies, sometimes massive settlements of scavengers who cluster around garbage dumps.
- But they say they had nowhere else to go, homeless migrants who shift from village to city, from one squatter colony to another, nibbling at the edges of society.
- There's something funny going on in the squatter colony at the end of the bay.
- Frank gazed intently across the water at the squatter colony, now falling astern.
- They hid their cycles in a grove of short, scrubby pines near the squatter colony.
- On Feb. 23, there was a police attack on the squatter colony, part of the government's occasional effort at slum clearance.
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