1.   Drug paraphernalia was strewn around the squalid apartment, he said, and the acrid-sweet smell of crack cocaine hung in the air.

2.   Itzhak Levy lives downstairs in his squalid apartment, while Zevolan Simonto occupies a sparse upstairs flat.

3.   Squalid apartment blocks stand very near the pyramids, and mud brick houses cling to the Luxor hills where pharaohs are entombed.

4.   The hostages were held in a squalid apartment on Sutphin Boulevard, which has been the site of prior narcotics raids, the police said.

5.   There are plenty of poor urban neighborhoods where overcrowded families pack into tiny squalid apartments.

6.   The revelation last week that a relief agency had placed refugees in squalid apartments spurred action.