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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:

To the south a monster conflagration was filling the sky, and we knew that the great ghetto was burning.

Slum, stews, and ghetto pour them forth, and the festering contents of slum, stews, and ghetto are undiminished.

When people talk about ghetto areas, let me tell you, no one is more in a ghetto than the American classical composer.

The purity of home life has fought and triumphed over all the unsanitary conditions of ghetto life.

Missions and chapels in the slums and synagogues in the ghettos have carried religion to the lowest classes.

Youth in the ghetto; a study of the consequences of powerlessness and a blueprint for change.

Echoed this child of the Chinese ghetto, his eyes round with astonishment and his squat, flat nose pointing upwards.

In the dark night of the ghetto the flame of knowledge was never quenched.

The consequences of this blow were momentous; it may be said to inaugurate the ghetto period.

Give her what money you've got, and she'll poke around in the ghetto for clothes.

I shall urge special methods and special funds to reach the hundreds of thousands of Americans that are now trapped in the ghettos of our big cities and, through Head Start, to try to reach out to our very young, little children.

I therefore decided to destroy and burn down the entire ghetto, without regard to the armament factories.

Here in the ghetto, of which the ancient gateway still stands, the streets are narrow and tortuous.

Slums, stews, and ghetto pour them forth, and the festering contents of slums, stews, and ghetto are undiminished.

Also, many ghetto residents, whose lives were surrounded with crime and violence, were further angered when they watched the evening news showing their Southern brothers kicked and clubbed by sheriffs.

These ghetto residents had not been schooled in the tactics of nonviolent resistance.

The personification of certain types of ghetto fanatics is a transparent ruse.

All the types of ghetto fanatics are portrayed with the crudest realism.

It offers the hypocrite of the ghetto the opportunity of exercising his fatal power.

His story is the Odyssey of an erring son of the ghetto.

The whole gamut of precarious employments open to a scholar of the ghetto he ran up and down again.

One after the other he presents the idealists of the ghetto to the reader.

The cry of liberty wakened a loud echo in the ghettos of even the most backward countries.