How to Use skid row in a Sentence

skid row

noun
  • Last year, there was an outbreak of typhus in the squalor near skid row.
    — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The attack comes in the wake of a spasm of violence in skid row.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
  • More of these stations are expected to open in skid row.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • But the business closed just as the population of skid row boomed.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2022
  • This Christmas tale about a yuppie’s descent to skid row is pitch black.
    — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Encampments have swelled from skid row a few blocks away to line sidewalks outside city hall.
    — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
  • The streets of skid row have long languished in an urban quagmire of trash, tents and neglect.
    — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2021
  • As seen in the film, the middle-aged Moore was inspired to perfect these skid row toasts.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The terms apply only to skid row and surrounding streets downtown.
    — Dakota Smith, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
  • Another idea is to set up a shuttle to drive people from skid row to its existing sites a few miles away.
    — Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • Tall and languorous, he was known to meander with a cane down the streets of Fort Worth’s skid row.
    — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2022
  • My grandfather was a skid row alcoholic and depression runs in my genes.
    — Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The city lost several civil rights lawsuits over police crackdowns on skid row.
    — Gale Holland, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Back on skid row, the Union Rescue Mission has already held its main event.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The singer, who has defied health mandates before, plans stops on skid row and at a tent city in Echo Park.
    — Nita Lelyveld, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Bennett asked, referring to a large homeless services agency on skid row.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Even as cheap shots of downtown LA’s skid row try to jam in social context uneasily.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Business is sluggish at a skid row floral shop where nerdish Seymour and his crush Audrey work.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Homeless camps, including the large one in the city’s skid row district, develop their own cultures.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • For six days Richard Dever sat in his tiny fifth-floor apartment on skid row, desperate for some fresh air.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Los Angeles really clear skid row and offer shelter to all those living on the streets?
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Not so long ago, the West Loop was known as one of America’s most notorious skid rows.
    — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The outbreaks have hit skid row especially hard, forcing the county to improvise.
    — Doug Smith Senior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Soon after, Gomez invited a Brazilian religious order to hand out free food on skid row.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2021
  • The Times’ Jaimie Ding looked at the reasons for that, and some of the challenges faced by the facility, which sits on the edge of skid row.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Kashner said Markle developed a keen sense of social justice at a young age thanks to her mother who would often bring her to feed the homeless on skid row.
    — CBS News, 19 May 2018
  • Mark had been wanting to quit using meth for a while when someone pointed him to the folding table propped up at the skid row site where homeless people stop for showers and laundry.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2022
  • The skid row setting, though not a central element of Dane Laffrey’s scenic design, has seeped into the actors’ bones.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The deal ended a legal battle with skid row residents and their advocates, who argued that the law trampled on the rights of homeless people who had nowhere else to go.
    — Shelby Grad, latimes.com, 23 June 2018
  • The rest is being used by the public and nonprofit medical teams serving skid row, where Von Deffner is working again.
    — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020

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