How to Use segregate in a Sentence

segregate

1 of 2 verb
  • Many states at that time continued to segregate public schools.
  • The civil rights movement fought against practices that segregated black and white people.
  • And for the first eight years of my life, my town was segregated.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Some may be asked to wear a mask, segregate from others on the job or to work from home.
    — Dee Depass, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The city’s schools are some of the most segregated by race in the country.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The public schools were segregated, and for decades there was no Black high school at all.
    — Jonathan Entin, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Why does the brain segregate the processing of faces from that of other objects?
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The new rule requires firms to segregate data for internal use and data for sale.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But researchers say not every district re-segregates once court oversight ends.
    — Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • What was shocking to me was the fact that the United States was still segregated.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
  • After high school, Saar wanted to study art, but art schools at that time were largely segregated.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • History tells us that the states would have kept our schools segregated if left to their own authority.
    — Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2026
  • As with baseball and football, basketball teams from this era were segregated.
    — Jared Bahir Browsh, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The school was poorly funded, riven by gang violence, and deeply segregated by race and class.
    — Gioia Woods, Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • That means that data should be segregated so that only those with a legitimate need to know can access it.
    — Barbara McQuade, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • That means that data should be segregated so that only those with a legitimate need to know can access it.
    — Barbara McQuade, Twin Cities, 15 Jan. 2026
  • And no one, not even Bullard, knew how segregated the most polluted places really were.
    — Yessenia Funes, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • At many stores and in the beauty aisles, curly hair products seemed to be segregated from other products that cater to people with straight hair.
    — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Damante said it's been very difficult to segregate inmates who've tested positive from those who haven't.
    — Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2022
  • But to segregate unauthorized immigrants from the census totals for each state, there first had to be a census.
    — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • But gun rights advocates have argued that step would unfairly segregate legal gun sales when most sales do not lead to mass shootings.
    — Ken Sweet, ajc, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The graves had been racially segregated during apartheid, and headstones of white people remained clustered at one end.
    — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Ishikawa herself worked in one of the bars that served Black soldiers, at a time when most establishments were segregated.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
  • But the court also ordered election officials to segregate and preserve them, setting the stage for a legal fight.
    — Charles Homans, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • At the time, most public colleges in Alabama were still segregated.
    — Rebecca Griesbach | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The result was to segregate where Black and white people and Black and Latinx people would live in cities.
    — Leah Shaffer, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Milwaukee is the state's largest and most diverse city and one that has long been recognized as among the most racially segregated in the nation.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2023
  • Ballots would need to be separated, databases would need to be segregated, and poll workers would need to explain who can vote for what.
    — Matt Klink, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
  • The album skyrocketed to the top of the charts and came at a time when the music industry was still largely segregated.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In the 1940s, beaches, along with many other places, were segregated in the South.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2025

segregate

2 of 2 noun
  • As public schools re-segregate, the rise in charter schools has not helped this trend.
    — Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 17 May 2018
  • Choosing to self-segregate opens the door open to polarization.
    — Helen Lee Bouygues, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Friendships between people of different races are common until about the age of 10, when children begin to self-segregate.
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 9 Aug. 2022
  • There is also another cultural trend that has led many in our nation to ideologically self-segregate, not based on race, but based on ideology.
    — James Lankford, National Review, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Other sensitive data, including family trees and DNA data, are stored on segregate systems that are separate from those that house email addresses.
    — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 5 June 2018

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