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How to use the word inner-city in a Sentence?

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This is not normal. Normally within the surrounded areas of St. Louis city, we may get flooding but it doesn't impact the inner city as much as it has this week.

Jacqueline Dace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hell, I was on the Jay Leno Show about the book, and the LA Times couldn't care less, by any standards, I'm a success story, come from the inner city … I defy anybody to follow my father's past: eighth grade drop out, buying a house that cost $600,000 by working two jobs. You could never do it. They don't care about that, but they care about calling me a sellout, and Uncle Tom, and Jean Guerrero and the LA Times should be ashamed of themselves.

Jean Guerrero

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're trying to actively get more kids involved with after-school programs such as computer literacy, teaching them how to write essays, math, social studies, science, this is what's needed for these inner-city youths to keep them active. If they don't have no parks to go to, no boys and girls clubs, no after-school activities, what do you expect, they're going to get in trouble.

Vaughn Dickerson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm Mexican American. I grew up in Chicago, inner city, with parents who did not speak English, i'm glad I had that experience, but I also can tell Mexican American that those social determinants of health are really meaningful in our communities.

Mexican American

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're going to work very hard on the inner city.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All. we focus a lot of time on ... inner-city, minority groups living in dilapidated housing as an image of poverty in this country.

Mark Rank

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We focus a lot of time on ... inner-city, minority groups living in dilapidated housing as an image of poverty in this country.

Mark Rank

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They are using federal housing money intended to improve the bad housing of poor Americans as the lever to force compliance with these new regulations, but that money is most needed in blighted, inner city urban neighborhoods, where there are a large number of African Americans. This federal utopian vision will divert that needed federal money into suburbs where it is not needed, leaving poor Americans living in substandard, terrible housing.

Von Spakovsky

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He comes down to the inner city, to Skid Row, which is one of the most challenging areas to live in and he runs so freely.

James Knox

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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