How to Use segregated in a Sentence

segregated

adjective
  • We have been pegged the fifth or sixth most segregated city for so many years.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
  • But housing in the city is among the most segregated in the nation.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 16 June 2021
  • The two were brought to a segregated unit, and will go through a disciplinary process.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The segregated school had wooden walls, inside and out, and wood floors.
    — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2025
  • The plan doesn’t go anywhere, but the image of a segregated office lingers for a bit.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
  • That night will change the course of the civil rights movement in the segregated South.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Shirley was buried in a segregated graveyard under live oaks, on a bayou.
    — Jesmyn Ward, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • But as a child born in the segregated South, that wasn’t possible.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Brown was born and raised in the segregated south in Bartow, Fla.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • The plaintiffs charge that segregated charter schools are part of the problem.
    — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 13 June 2019
  • Connecticut is one of the most segregated places in the country.
    — Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, ProPublica, 29 June 2020
  • This is a man who refused to play multiple games in the segregated South.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2021
  • In 2016, more than half of black students were in such segregated schools.
    — Erica Frankenberg, The Conversation, 19 July 2019
  • Richard was born and raised in the segregated South, and his journey was a dramatic one.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The youngest of four kids, Lightfoot grew up in a highly segregated town in Ohio.
    — Isabel Sophia Dieppa, Marie Claire, 31 May 2018
  • Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, and one of the most segregated.
    — Isabel Sophia Dieppa, Marie Claire, 31 May 2018
  • But in many big cities and across the South, students remain in districts that are deeply segregated.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • And Boston is so segregated, the Black folk who are here go overlooked.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Like many businesses in the segregated South, blacks weren’t able to buy tickets to shows there.
    — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • While some schools became more segregated after the end of court oversight, others didn’t.
    — Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • In the segregated era, Black high school teams played there as well, often on Thursday nights.
    — Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Yet our society has morphed into a segregated form of free speech that erodes the very essence of such freedom.
    — Sheldon Jacobson, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The state Supreme Court upheld those covenants, along with the practice of segregated schools.
    — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Why is Buffalo among the most segregated cities in the nation?
    — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • Her grandmother told the girls about coming of age in the segregated Deep South.
    — NBC News, 10 June 2021
  • But the city's reckoning with its segregated past was just beginning.
    — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The state remains one of the most segregated in the country for Black and Latino students.
    — P.r. Lockhart, NBC News, 1 June 2022
  • During the war, Soskin worked as a file clerk for a segregated shipyard workers union auxiliary.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Swimming pools and beaches were among the most segregated and fought over public spaces in the North and the South.
    — Victoria W. Wolcott, The Conversation, 9 July 2019
  • In the 1970s, courts ordered the district to address the harms of its segregated schools.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026

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