How to Use segregated in a Sentence

segregated

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  • But housing in the city is among the most segregated in the nation.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 16 June 2021
  • We have been pegged the fifth or sixth most segregated city for so many years.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
  • The two were brought to a segregated unit, and will go through a disciplinary process.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Brown was born and raised in the segregated south in Bartow, Fla.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • In 1948, the leagues held the last segregated World Series.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 31 May 2024
  • The state remains one of the most segregated in the country for Black and Latino students.
    — P.r. Lockhart, NBC News, 1 June 2022
  • But as a child born in the segregated South, that wasn’t possible.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The United States was a deeply segregated country in the 1940s.
    — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The plan doesn’t go anywhere, but the image of a segregated office lingers for a bit.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Born in 1943, Ashe was brought up in the segregated south in Richmond, Virginia.
    — Stephanie Griffith, CNN, 24 June 2022
  • This being the days of Jim Crow, the 200 Black mourners were in a segregated balcony.
    — al, 31 Dec. 2020
  • This special salutes the Black enlisted men who once served in segregated units in the U.S. Army.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 29 May 2022
  • Growing up in the segregated South, Martell had sung R&B and soul music.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Why were they kept in a segregated housing unit for so long?
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2021
  • For many in America, Sunday at 11 a.m. is the most segregated hour of the week.
    — Maisie Sparks, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2021
  • Richard was born and raised in the segregated South, and his journey was a dramatic one.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Port Arthur in the late '50s was still racially segregated and Whites were not welcome in venues that catered to Black patrons.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Her grandmother told the girls about coming of age in the segregated Deep South.
    — NBC News, 10 June 2021
  • As the paper notes, the study followed a broader survey of syphilis in the still deeply segregated region.
    — Caitjan Gainty, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In the segregated era, Black high school teams played there as well, often on Thursday nights.
    — Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2021
  • And Boston is so segregated, the Black folk who are here go overlooked.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • He was born into a segregated suburb of Chicago in the mid-1940s, the son of a black father and white mother.
    — Zaid Jilani, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
  • There are sports with segregated sexes for those sports, and those sports should be honored that way.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Why is Buffalo among the most segregated cities in the nation?
    — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • Lacy and Smith shared meals and boarding houses with Robinson in the segregated South during spring training and felt the taunts hurled from the stands.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • This is a man who refused to play multiple games in the segregated South.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Her small town was in the heart of the segregated South where there were separate churches for Black and White residents at the time.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Things are better today, but the city is still considered one of the most segregated in the nation.
    — James E. Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Her mother later remarried a white Dane, and Larsen was raised in a white Danish household in Chicago, a rapidly growing and increasingly segregated city.
    — Ethelene Whitmire, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Furthermore, students and faculty members at the school have reported a less united and more segregated campus than before any DEI initiatives.
    — Dan Berger, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024

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