How to Use inner city in a Sentence

inner city

noun
  • The mayor is trying to attract new businesses to the inner city.
  • And inner city kids don’t have that.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Just a bunch of great cheat codes that could help people who live in the inner city.
    — Ruth Reichl, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022
  • And e-pedicabs could replace most taxi trips in the inner city.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The same is often true of activist elites who live far from the inner city.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 24 Sep. 2020
  • For me, that’s one of the big issues, coming from the inner city.
    — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
  • In the two previous years, price growth in the two inner cities lagged the rest of the metro area.
    — Nick Halter, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
  • That a boy with no skin in the game is traveling to the inner city to protect it?
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021
  • What it’s done to inner city kids is nothing short of criminal.
    — For The Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024
  • The show takes a comedic approach toward issues in inner city schools.
    — Lynnette Mawhinney, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2022
  • That being said, kids in the inner city don’t have access to that training.
    — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Sports were a chance for kids in the inner cities to get out of town and break the cycle of poverty and gangs.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 1 June 2024
  • 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
  • While blight is a problem for both cities and towns, inner cities often bear the brunt, Perez said.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2024
  • Hodges has always made racial inclusion and serving the inner city a theme of the church.
    — al, 12 June 2020
  • There is a big disconnect with those living in the inner city and don’t have access to the beach.
    — Natalie Preddie, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Cousins also loves high school football and supporting schools in the inner city.
    — Jason Jones, sacbee, 4 July 2018
  • And so as the big grocery stores have closed in inner city neighborhoods, the dollar stores moved in.
    — Tonya Mosley, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • How is that going to appeal even to the inner city folks who want a safe environment as well?
    — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • Next, check out our favourite bottomless brunch venues around Sydney, from coastal to inner city.
    — Melissa Mason, refinery29.com, 26 June 2024
  • Hip-hop is the rose that grew from the concrete of poverty and deprivation in the inner city.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Many patients were from the inner city and had a lot of comorbid conditions.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • A lot of kids don’t have a two-parent household, especially in the inner city.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • So what’s a flower farm doing in the middle of inner city Chicago?
    — Martha Shade, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Pham is from the inner city of Las Vegas, born to a single-parent home.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Because krump was born from the inner city and has roots in gang culture, there is a hierarchy that comes with it.
    — Dominick Williams, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Because krump was born from the inner city and has roots in gang culture, there is a hierarchy that comes with it.
    — Dominick Williams, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Weston Urban has amassed more than 20 acres in the inner city.
    — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 16 Nov. 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

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