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.
  • To play touch football, kids need a football and a street or parking lot, of which there are plenty in the inner city.
    — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2018
  • But while crime remains an issue, recent years have seen locals reclaiming their inner city.
    — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Because disinvestment has occurred both in rural places and in inner cities.
    — Rebecca Traister, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Coal miners or single moms, rural communities are inner cities.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Stereotypes paint inner city black kids as having no real chance at contributing in positive ways to the society within which they were raised.
    — Chris Hays, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The cities must also include exceptions for some service providers and small businesses who need to have access to inner cities, according to the court.
    — Karin Matussek, Bloomberg.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The lower courts had argued that banning diesel cars in inner cities is the most effective way to meet EU pollution limits.
    — Karin Matussek, Bloomberg.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • We are bombarded with one false choice after another: coal miners or single moms, rural communities or inner cities, the coast or the heartland.
    — Eli Meixler, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
  • To be an African-American kid who grew up in the inner city with a single-parent mother and not being financially stable.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • In compliance with the state, larger cities like Waterbury continue to equitably share the burden of building more affordable homes in inner cities.
    — State Rep. Geraldo Reyes, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2024
  • With Johannesburg’s inner city booming in recent years, the only thing missing was a luxury hotel catering to high-end travelers not keen on staying in the tony suburbs.
    — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • What it’s done to inner city kids is nothing short of criminal.
    — For The Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024

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