How to Use segregated in a Sentence

segregated

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  • We have been pegged the fifth or sixth most segregated city for so many years.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
  • The two were brought to a segregated unit, and will go through a disciplinary process.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The state remains one of the most segregated in the country for Black and Latino students.
    — P.r. Lockhart, NBC News, 1 June 2022
  • But as a child born in the segregated South, that wasn’t possible.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Born in 1943, Ashe was brought up in the segregated south in Richmond, Virginia.
    — Stephanie Griffith, CNN, 24 June 2022
  • This special salutes the Black enlisted men who once served in segregated units in the U.S. Army.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 29 May 2022
  • Growing up in the segregated South, Martell had sung R&B and soul music.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • As the paper notes, the study followed a broader survey of syphilis in the still deeply segregated region.
    — Caitjan Gainty, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • There are sports with segregated sexes for those sports, and those sports should be honored that way.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Why is Buffalo among the most segregated cities in the nation?
    — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • Lacy and Smith shared meals and boarding houses with Robinson in the segregated South during spring training and felt the taunts hurled from the stands.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In the segregated military at the time, this work was mostly done by Black soldiers.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 20 July 2023
  • The process, in which schools sever ties with one district to form a new one, can also produce segregated schools.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The Navy was highly segregated when he was drafted, and Black men were resigned to menial jobs.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The signing signaled the end of segregated baseball and led to other Black players to joining the major leagues.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Willy was forced to play on a segregated club team limited only to Black and Arab children.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • New Hanover County Schools remain among the most segregated school districts in the country.
    — Neena Hagen, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
  • My abuelo, for example, lived in a segregated Texas where he wasn’t allowed to eat with the white kids on his baseball team after the game.
    — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Turning back the clock:Will fights over curriculum usher in new era of segregated schools?
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The signing signaled the end of segregated baseball and led to other Black players joining the major leagues.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Milwaukee region also is among the most segregated in the country.
    — Talis Shelbourne, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Scholars have long found that Milwaukee is one of the nation's most segregated cities.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Comer said although the tactics to maintain segregated spaces may change, the goal has not.
    — Talis Shelbourne, Journal Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
  • And the sisters wanted to make something that would belong to the growing Black community, many of whom, like them, had fled the segregated South.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The third time, Galindo was sent to the segregated housing unit after a fight with another detainee.
    — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Throughout her career, Freelon has often had to push back against norms that feel elitist and segregated.
    — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Barnett grew up in segregated Gary, Ind., shooting Ping-Pong balls into a tin cup.
    — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Notably, she was forced to sit at a segregated table away from her castmates and was barred from the afterparty.
    — Jenn Dize, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Officials at Tuesday’s event say the new 2-mile pedestrian and bike trail will mirror the same walk Mendez and others took to get to their segregated school.
    — Victoria Ivie, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And it’s this kind of social capital that has decreased as the country has become more segregated by class.
    — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022

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