Examples of favela in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Rio's police claim that the May 6 operation in the Jacarezinho favela of Rio's north zone was the result of 10 months of intelligence gathering. — DÉbora Álvares, Star Tribune, 9 May 2021 Six hundred more signed up for space on an empty field beside a favela. — Terrence Mccoy, Washington Post, 25 June 2021 Lucas admitted that the same driver had taken him to a favela a few weeks earlier, to buy a gun. — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021 There’s the kibbutz in Israel, and the favela in Brazil. — Marcus M. Gilban, sun-sentinel.com, 3 June 2021 Maybe something will trigger it, like a killing in a favela somewhere. — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 30 May 2021 Then in a single week police operations led to the suspension of emergency food distribution in one favela, left 13 dead in another and resulted in the death of 14-year-old João Pedro Mattos in a third. — Washington Post, 20 May 2021 One of the dead was a police officer, the rest lived in the favela. — David Miranda, Time, 8 May 2021 The poor and primarily Black faces of the favela made for powerful villain images in media narratives. — David Miranda, Time, 8 May 2021

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