How to Use stratified in a Sentence

stratified

adjective
  • In a stratified comedy landscape, Matts could be the one bro to save us all.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Add in the stratified, ear-bursting sound design and this is Baz times a bazillion.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
  • The troposphere is noisy and chaotic, while the stratosphere above it is calmer and more stratified.
    — Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Nov. 2025
  • In other words, the next few weeks will see Twitter become a much more stratified service.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Others wonder if this rich but highly stratified nation can afford not to.
    — Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2020
  • When the oceans are more stratified, warm water builds up near the surface, with less heat escaping down into the deep ocean.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Nowhere in this immense, stratified city is more democratic or beautiful.
    — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
  • There have been numerous brands throughout history that rode up and then rode down the spectrum of stratified brand images.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • And that there's a permanent underclass that is racially stratified, and that's very hard for people to escape.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Murchison said that three months after the death of George Floyd, the world has become more, not less, racially stratified.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • However, the oceans warm from the top down, and consequently the ocean is becoming more stratified.
    — Kevin Trenberth, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The longer the lake is stratified, the less time that nutrients are available to phytoplankton throughout the open water.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
  • Sequels tend to settle on top of the original volume like stratified layers of sediment.
    — Danny Schwartz, EW.com, 29 July 2020
  • If gases were in stratified layers and CO2 sunk below oxygen, humans would not be able to breathe.
    — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2021
  • This stratified environment is why compromise is so hard, both between and within the parties.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2021
  • These sorts of racially stratified descriptors are common in the sports media, from coaches and general managers, and from fans alike.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The image shows a stratified version of sandwich ingredients layered with plenty of white space in between.
    — Sarah Garone, Health, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Although much of it was filmed in Ontario, the series has a good sense of Philadelphia as a stratified powder keg of a city.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Disco music was notable for its stratified textures, anchored in the four-on-the-floor beat, which has the tendency to put the bass drum on every quarter note.
    — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The Silo is 140+ floors of highly stratified living space, with a vast spiral staircase down the middle.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2023
  • The decor’s stratified scenes of clouds and sky-scraping cityscapes provided a further fashion-forward, futuristic edge.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 29 Sep. 2022
  • These shifts could gradually replace the deep blue hues of today's oceans with purples, browns, and greens, especially in coastal or stratified waters.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Its portfolio spans high-end landmark projects and regional core malls, reflecting stratified demand across markets.
    — Li Jun, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • And just as recipe blogging was difficult to monetize, the grandfluencer economy, too, is somewhat opaque and stratified.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The American elite is highly stratified, and the chances are going to be that the top echelons will come from private universities.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2011
  • Porter’s story has the signposts of a mystery and the economically stratified ensemble cast of a social novel.
    — The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • But like ants around a stray potato chip, language has to gather around something, and in The Barbarians, that something is a stratified story.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The protocol relies on a stratified hierarchy of devices; at the bottom are everyday servers.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The risk is that language study becomes more stratified, remaining common in private schools and affluent districts while shrinking elsewhere.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Some of these societies were highly stratified and hierarchical, with élites and, in certain cases, a kinglike single ruler.
    — David Treuer, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022

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