Examples of Chinatown in a Sentence
We had dinner in Chinatown.
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What the show brings to the genre—and what makes each kinetic half-hour of its first season so much fun to watch—is a fierce love of movies that comes through in, for example, an extended homage to Chinatown and such stylistic flexes as a single-shot episode devoted to filming a single-shot scene.
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Judy Berman, Time, 3 June 2025
Her father, Roger Towne, was a screenwriter, while her uncle was the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter of Chinatown, Robert Towne.
—Adam England, People.com, 3 June 2025
For the past decade, Hundley has made his home and studio in a former engine factory built in 1907 in the Chinatown neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 30 May 2025
At the south end of Chinatown, average rents went up $379 and transit use fell by 21%.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 29 May 2025
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Judy Berman, Time, 3 June 2025
Her father, Roger Towne, was a screenwriter, while her uncle was the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter of Chinatown, Robert Towne.
—Adam England, People.com, 3 June 2025
For the past decade, Hundley has made his home and studio in a former engine factory built in 1907 in the Chinatown neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 30 May 2025
At the south end of Chinatown, average rents went up $379 and transit use fell by 21%.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 29 May 2025
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“Chinatown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Chinatown. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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Chinatown
noun
Chi·na·town
ˈchī-nə-ˌtau̇n 
: an area of a city where many people of Chinese ancestry live
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