How to Use inner city in a Sentence

inner city

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  • The mayor is trying to attract new businesses to the inner city.
  • For me, that’s one of the big issues, coming from the inner city.
    — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
  • Just a bunch of great cheat codes that could help people who live in the inner city.
    — Ruth Reichl, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022
  • That a boy with no skin in the game is traveling to the inner city to protect it?
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The same is often true of activist elites who live far from the inner city.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Both of us, from inner city L.A., were hooked the first time those cars roared by at nearly 200 mph.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2021
  • The Davies' mother was among the Londoners who left the inner city to start over in the suburbs.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And e-pedicabs could replace most taxi trips in the inner city.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Quilen Blackwell wants to fill the inner city with flowers.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • What has to happen in Chicago, and not just inner cities.
    — Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
  • Pham is from the inner city of Las Vegas, born to a single-parent home.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022
  • That being said, kids in the inner city don’t have access to that training.
    — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Hodges has always made racial inclusion and serving the inner city a theme of the church.
    — al, 12 June 2020
  • So when his shift was over, Trooper Morris cruised to their playground, in the inner city.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2021
  • But at the end of the day, the little kid in the inner city, a little kid who was going five miles over the speed limit, should not fear for his life.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The show takes a comedic approach toward issues in inner city schools.
    — Lynnette Mawhinney, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2022
  • That’s my goal, to help inner city kids go on and get a college scholarship through their sport.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The actress talks about the show's unique portrayal of inner city life through the lens of the Flenory family.
    — Admin, Essence, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The people who were money makers, and shakers, and bakers in the cities didn’t want to live in the inner city anymore.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Weston Urban has amassed more than 20 acres in the inner city.
    — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • It's located in [Houston's] inner city, where most of the first-time projects are being built.
    — Ellen Paris, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Segments of the West Side and the inner city went for far less time without electricity.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2021
  • Blame it, if anything, on the limited options for young Black men growing up in the inner city.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2021
  • How is that going to appeal even to the inner city folks who want a safe environment as well?
    — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • The Gift’s Spring 2022 collection, which is inspired by the founder’s childhood in the inner city of Los Angeles.
    — Greg Emmanuel, Essence, 29 Mar. 2022
  • A lot of kids don’t have a two-parent household, especially in the inner city.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Southside Blooms is a non-profit that hires at-risk inner city youth to create farm-to-vase bouquets.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Cousins also loves high school football and supporting schools in the inner city.
    — Jason Jones, sacbee, 4 July 2018
  • The idea for this walk came from hearing about a man who walked from Milwaukee to Chicago to raise awareness of inner city crime.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
  • The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill spoke about the struggle of being a youth in the inner city.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 26 May 2022

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