| The prison, which consisted of seven underground dungeons and a day-room, was filthy, disease-ridden, and infested with vermin. |
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| During the summer, the wives and children of politicians often avoided Washington, which had been built atop a disease-ridden swamp. |
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| Foer became politicised, he tells us, by a visit to an industrialised turkey farm, crowded, filthy, disease-ridden. |
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| Parents wanted safe, clean places to raise children rather than disease-ridden industrial cities. |
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| The harsh regime resembled the worst British factories, except that it took place in a stifling and disease-ridden climate. |
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| He considered himself fortunate that he had not been included in the earlier work parties that were sent up to cut the traces through the disease-ridden jungle. |
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| A man covered with suppurating sores, emaciated and disease-ridden, was groaning as he picked yellow scabs from his body. |
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| The conditions are deplorable: overcrowded and disease-ridden without adequate access to medical attention, proper nutrition, and clean water. |
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| Light was blocked out, rubbish and pollution accumulated and the scheme soon descended into a foetid, disease-ridden mass of squalor and degradation. |
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| But I suppose there's no denying that we learn from our mistakes, just as we learn from toothless, disease-ridden drifters. |
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| Venice, which begins as a sensory paradise and ends as a disease-ridden abyss. |
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| Many spent years in squalid, disease-ridden refugee camps or shantytowns in Ethiopia or Kenya. |
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| Wild cats evolved into housecats, and they were quite useful for thousands of years, killing disease-ridden rats and mice and protecting our food stockpiles. |
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| It's frightening when you think these needles could be disease-ridden. |
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| They argued that the city was not required to regularly conduct state-of-the-art inspections to determine whether trees were rotting or disease-ridden. |
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| She stands in the driest part of the playground and uses her finger to trace the streams of disease-ridden water as they flow across the road in small hand-dug trenches. |
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| It is a grim, violent and disease-ridden world, they say. |
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| Health in prison: a crucial problem because prisons are disease-ridden. |
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| However, the destruction was undertaken for public health and safety reasons because malnourished, disease-ridden dogs posed a threat to residents of the northern communities. |
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| Disease-ridden livestock can pose a danger to public health. |
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