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informal an area of a city in which homeless people sleep rough, often in cardboard boxes

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How to use cardboard city in a sentence

Throughout the fifties, in city after city, fluoridation became the subject of fierce debate.
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To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
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Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails.
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“I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.
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Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.
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This city stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes through.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.
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You see, I am the city undertaker, and the people are dying here so fast, that I can hardly supply the demand for coffins.
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Cheap as they are, they are a poorer speculation than even corner lots in a lithographic city of Nebraska or Oregon.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The streets here are rather wide for an Italian city but would be deemed intolerably narrow in America.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley