Examples of Chinatown in a Sentence
We had dinner in Chinatown.
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In Honolulu, the uncertainty of Trump’s tariffs has rattled small businesses in Chinatown.
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Allison Cho, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
Last week, a pack of rice crackers at Sun Vin Grocery store on Mulberry Street in New York City’s Chinatown cost $4.99.
—Hannah Lang and Judith Langowski, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
And several blocks of tunnel below Chinatown, dug half a century ago for the Second Avenue subway, remain a vacant, unseen taunt.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025
Buttressed by Chinatown on one side and the glass skyscraper skyline of the financial district on the other, Jackson Square is one of the city’s oldest commercial districts.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025
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Allison Cho, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
Last week, a pack of rice crackers at Sun Vin Grocery store on Mulberry Street in New York City’s Chinatown cost $4.99.
—Hannah Lang and Judith Langowski, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
And several blocks of tunnel below Chinatown, dug half a century ago for the Second Avenue subway, remain a vacant, unseen taunt.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025
Buttressed by Chinatown on one side and the glass skyscraper skyline of the financial district on the other, Jackson Square is one of the city’s oldest commercial districts.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Chinatown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Chinatown. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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Chinatown
noun
Chi·na·town
ˈchī-nə-ˌtau̇n 
: an area of a city where many people of Chinese ancestry live
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