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Definition of ghetto:

  • (noun) any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
  • (noun) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

Sentence Examples:

It was impossible that this should be, much less in the labor ghetto south of Market.

Tell them what you think about them and their ghetto ethics.

They found him in a small public library on an ill-smelling ghetto street.

And as though drawn by invisible chains he strayed far down into the ghetto.

Part of the world should become a ghetto.

They were closely packed together in the narrow and dark ghettos.

He, too, in a subterranean, ghetto way was master over his rats.

"There goes a lot of meals for the prisoners in the ghetto," Sim said and laughed.

They have been walled up in the narrow and filthy ghettos of cities.

What miseries might not be concealed in the ghettos!

A handbook for teaching in the ghetto school.

The ghetto game; racial conflicts in the city.

Beyond the burning: life and death of the ghetto.

John Albrecht is also credited with the establishment of the first ghetto in Poland.

This was the first ray that penetrated the Ghettos from without.

We have here in the ghetto a great lady doctor.

Her descendants still live in the ghetto.

This neighborhood is a regular ghetto.

The ghetto was the laboratory for testing repressive measures.

Hemmed in by the ghetto, they were growing content with the ghetto.

Times were hard in the ghetto, and Rabbis were many.

It was a ghetto; we had no roots there.

In the poorer streets of this ghetto several families occupied one and the same room.

Her life has lain always within the four dim walls of her ghetto home.

Then they were driven off to the ghetto.

Towards the end of December in the ghetto my wife gave birth to a child, a boy.

When I came to the ghetto later I found that my wife had had a baby in a ghetto hospital.

On the next day I went to my mother in the ghetto, and I found her room empty.

He sent these old shoes as a gift to the ghetto.

And I live in the underground ghettos of the present.

Poet of the ghetto as he was, he knew neither nature at first hand, nor love, nor art.

It may be considered the ghetto poet's testament.

Feeling for nature, aesthetic delights, were strange provinces to this son of the ghetto.

The disappointed son of the ghetto lays no stress on gratifications and pleasures.