How to Use segregation in a Sentence

segregation

noun
  • They fought to end the segregation of public schools.
  • Some dated back to the segregation era, when non-whites were banned from pools.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2022
  • And one of the many things is that so many of the women were born into segregation.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022
  • The deputies walked the man to a jail segregation unit before the video ended.
    — Darrell Smith may 1, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • Smith was a civil rights leader who fought against segregation on and off the court.
    — Madison Park, CNN, 17 May 2018
  • They were stuffed in rickety wooden cars in the front due to segregation.
    — Tiana Clark, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • He was then taken to the segregation block.
    — Michael Biesecker, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Sadly, such segregation of fake news items from their fact-check reports is the norm.
    — Filippo Menczer, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Rodríguez said that for her, the program still amounts to segregation.
    — Brenda Medina, Kyra Gurney and Lena Jackson, miamiherald, 17 May 2018
  • Johns, at 16, led a walkout at her high school, which helped end school segregation.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 17 Dec. 2025
  • When our parents were growing up in segregation, they weren’t even allowed to go to the pool.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024
  • But the extent of segregation in the South took him by surprise.
    — Jason Willick, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The term was a play on the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation.
    — Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Kansas was one of 21 states with school segregation.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026
  • But part of our local reckoning with race is about coming to terms with a deep sense of segregation.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The rush to judgment based on skin color is familiar to those of us who lived through segregation.
    — Robert L. Woodson Sr., WSJ, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Little did the 42-year-old know that her act would help end segregation laws in the South.
    — CNN, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The city was built with race and class segregation in mind; only the rich received public services.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • They were not denied the right to vote or made victims through the racial segregation of schools and neighborhoods.
    — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 2 Nov. 2017
  • His family couldn’t afford the nicer shops north of the tracks, and no one pushed the segregation issue.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Across the South, many of these schools are segregation academies.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Inglis said he was placed in segregation at Northern.
    — Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Now, at the time, segregation was legal under the Jim Crow laws.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The bad part is…its segregation history.
    — Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • From there, the protests moved to Canal Street and included lunch counter sit-ins in protest of segregation laws.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • In 1939 the library was the site of one of the country’s first sit-ins to protest segregation.
    — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023
  • People still sometime make the mistake to think that segregation was only in the South.
    — Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The couple fought segregation laws that redrew boundary lines to cut directly through their town.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
  • King, of course, was referring to segregation.
    — Caitlin Hu, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • San Jose Unified has faced segregation concerns in the past.
    — Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026

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