"neighborhood" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In one desperately decrepit neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, a serial killer has taken the lives of six women, five of them within the last year.
- Only later, as a practicing architect in the 1990s, did he begin to see these decrepit neighborhoods as a legitimate landscape for architectural experimentation.
- "Rational" flipping can encourage a rejuvenation and restoration of a previously decrepit neighborhood, but rising property values can also be seen in a negative light, termed gentrification.
- With shadowy political maneuvering, they have stifled the kind of public debate that could have led to a more ambitious vision for the convention center and the decrepit neighborhoods next to it.
- This structure, apparently an old residence that had seen better days, was actually a most important adjunct to the decrepit neighborhood.
- The last time he'd been in this decrepit neighborhood he'd been Rastafarian Peter Haile Thomas from Queens.
- In 1997, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center was built on the fringe of the central business district, transforming one of Newark's most decrepit and dangerous neighborhoods.
- This time of night, in this decrepit neighborhood, no one was around, only a couple of scum-bums huddled over a blazing trash can.
- In New York, bedrooms are often too small, natural light almost nonexistent and neighborhoods bleak if not decrepit.
- But the person returning home from a mountain cabin to a dead-end job and a burglarized apartment in a decrepit neighborhood may wonder where he or she went wrong.
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