How to Use squalid in a Sentence

squalid

adjective

• The family lived in squalid conditions.
• And then there are the ones whose omission verges on the squalid.
  — vanityfair.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Villagers would be forced to flee their homes and packed into squalid makeshift camps.
  — Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
• Once the exchange stopped, prisons got more and more crowded and more and more squalid.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 22 Oct. 2018
• Many of them have been living in squalid tent camps, which are freezing at night and hot during the day.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
• Tens of thousands have now been confined to squalid displacement camps for a decade.
  — Reuters, CNN, 22 July 2022
• Thousands of those people are now waiting in squalid border camps.
  — Houston Chronicle, 5 Dec. 2019
• That meant some rough times in squalid conditions, and coming under fire.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• Hundreds of thousands are struggling with hunger and disease in squalid tent camps on the coast.
  — Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
• The conditions are squalid, and the crush of new arrivals has stretched aid agencies thin.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
• Millions have paid heed, with hundreds of thousands seeking refuge in squalid tent camps.
  — ABC News, 8 June 2026
• Letting plants grow beneath the trees seemed like a squalid, lazy, weed-spreading hazard.
  — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 24 May 2018
• Hundreds of thousands are packed into squalid tent camps along the coast as the cold, wet winter sets in.
  — Wafaa Shurafa and Tia Goldenberg The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2024
• The toddler's body was found under a couch in her squalid home after a 30-hour search.
  — Alicia Fabbre, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2017
• Soon, the squalid sea water that runs beneath Hong Kong’s streets sloshed around his knees.
  — Suzanne Sataline, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2019
• But the squalid conditions in which some tenants live demands some kind of action.
  — Bill Turque, kansascity, 10 May 2018
• His apartment was a squalid den of decay, a mausoleum to forgotten dreams and lost hopes.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 24 May 2023
• Fans were going to games in decades-old stadiums with hard wooden seats and squalid bathrooms.
  — Bruce Schoenfeld Robert Fass Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• Many of the others land in jail cells or squalid street encampments, or languish in back bedrooms.
  — Sally Satel, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
• Propped up on wooden platforms, the homes were an upgrade over the squalid sheds where farmworkers slept.
  — NBC News, 23 Sep. 2019
• Neat or squalid, these apartments reflect the compromised lives these men have made for themselves.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
• Aid groups said that deal created open-air prisons with squalid conditions.
  — Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2026
• The whole economical and squalid enterprise, just this side of a derelict’s bindle.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• Raised in a tiny two-room house in a squalid neighborhood, Sayeda spent much of her childhood on her own.
  — Smita Sharma, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2020
• And, much as in Europe, some families were kicked out of their homes and forced to live in squalid ghettos.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• Such, at least, is the vibe of our squalid semiquincentennial summer.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• Book 1 centers on the squalid circumstances of his death—and threatens a lawsuit.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
• Abu Hassan had lost his worldly possessions and was living in a squalid camp.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• In the midst of a squalid surrender, one young general had spoken up for France.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• That single count was based on squalid conditions that the police found in the family's home.
  — Brittny Mejia, latimes.com, 16 May 2018