How to Use gentrified in a Sentence

gentrified

adjective
  • Today, the city is larger and more gentrified, with far less violent crime and twice as few homicides.
    — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023
  • In Chicago, a lot of thrift shops are very gentrified now, and used clothes are often more expensive than new clothes.
    — Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 20 Jan. 2023
  • There were burgers and hot dogs, his stalwarts, as well as more gentrified, vaguely hipster offerings.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Mel, the mother of two daughters, tries to reclaim her place in a gentrified neighborhood while her kids learn firsthand how to balance their own lives.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Concern that there were enough SROs downtown, or too many, merged with a push for a more gentrified, vibrant city core.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Riley was equally at ease when talking with the dentist, listening patiently as the man described his fancy new house in a gentrified area.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • With better schools and less crime, segregated districts become gentrified, leaving them more racially mixed.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • Much of old Baghdad has been left to rot, its modernist heritage decaying, its leafy suburbs disfigured and gentrified.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Not far from the Elangeni Gardens, trendy, gentrified markets speak to a vibrant city that many young people find attractive.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 17 May 2023
  • But the film is really a tour of a pre-gentrified East Village, full of low-key bars and cafes, run-down apartments, eccentrics and struggling artists.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • The model learned to approximate how residents distinguish gentrified scenes from unchanged ones.
    — Isaac Quaye, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Crown Heights became more gentrified, with boutique shops, restaurants and cocktail bars replacing sneaker shops, empty storefronts and psychics.
    — Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Even in Ramallah – a gentrified suburbia of shopping malls and chic cafes and the PA seat of power since Oslo – its grip is rapidly loosening.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
  • All-seat stadiums replaced standing bleachers, helping to phase out soccer's hooliganistic image and replacing it with something more gentrified.
    — NBC News, 16 July 2021
  • Most recently, in response to the soulless sameness of the megaplexes, a new kind of gentrified cinema has emerged, with reserved seating, food service and artisanal cocktails delivered to your seat.
    — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • His uncle, Mike Gormley, opened the bar in 1983, long before the neighborhood had become the gentrified domain of young families.
    — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The film tells the story of a young black man’s efforts to reclaim his childhood home, now an expensive Victorian house in a gentrified neighborhood of San Francisco.
    — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Gentrification doesn’t always look the same As a neighborhood becomes gentrified, wealthier people move in and long-standing residents can be displaced through rent hikes or the loss of housing.
    — Isaac Quaye, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • As Los Feliz has mutated through the years, from a scruffy and diverse neighborhood into its more sleek and gentrified successor, one of its few reassuring constants is the bookstore around the corner.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Meanwhile, in a gentrified neighborhood where the limited options for child care are expensive, parents reacted to Rosemount’s announcement with a mix of frustration and sadness.
    — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In a way, the row encapsulates this extremely gentrified part of town, which has changed dramatically since McFadyen arrived in 1978.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Take the gentrified monstrosity that is Ikseondong, another central Seoul neighborhood that once anchored the gay community.
    — Anton Hur, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026
  • But the district's boundaries have changed to include more of the Hispanic areas of East Harlem, Washington Heights and the Bronx, and the area has become more gentrified and diverse.
    — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • There's a similar familial atmosphere at Maha's Egyptian Brunch in Leslieville, a gentrified neighborhood in Toronto East.
    — Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
  • For the Latinos, the fight was to preserve community anchors including churches, as the neighborhood becomes increasingly gentrified and working-class Mexican families are being forced out by rising rents.
    — Julie Bosman Todd Heisler, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Sometimes, more recent Prides feel like a gentrified neighborhood losing its original ethnic or racial soul, or a former friend disappearing into a dysfunctional relationship and after time bearing little resemblance to their former self.
    — Pamela Sneed, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 June 2021
  • Ten years ago, a master plan was unveiled to reimagine North Beach, the most affordable, least gentrified slice of Miami Beach that stretches from 63rd Street to 87th Terrace.
    — Aaron Leibowitz may 8, Miami Herald, 8 May 2026
  • But the filmmaker’s distinct fondness for the bygone era of a slightly less gentrified downtown is evident, and goes a long way to adding color and a sense of character to what sometimes feels like After Hours hopped up on Red Bull and Zima.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Organizers specifically chose upscale areas such as the gentrified downtown, Beverly Hills, and the beachside community of Santa Monica to bring their message home.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2020
  • Owens, an American designer based in Paris since 2003, is drawn to pre-gentrified Hollywood and Los Angeles’ punk underground scene in the 1980s.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025

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