How to Use Chinatown in a Sentence

Chinatown

noun

• We had dinner in Chinatown.
• What does Chinatown mean to you, and how has that changed over time?
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2024
• One place that did pan out was the Chinatown section of Bangkok.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 June 2024
• But now most of the streets in Chinatown are empty after dusk.
  — Rong Xiaoqing, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
• Chris used to eat char siu every weekend with his family in Chinatown.
  — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• His job included doing the rounds of the city’s Chinatown district and sundry junkyards to buy spare parts.
  — Ian Sayson, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
• And in February, a crowd in Chinatown set a Waymo car on fire.
  — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
• The Chinatown art space Human Resources was in the throes of a deep cleaning.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• But the island’s Chinatown is only one of nine across New York’s boroughs.
  — Rachel Chang, AFAR Media, 1 May 2025
• Nor do any of the drinks at Stay, a zero-proof cocktail lounge that has just opened in a storied Chinatown building.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Is there a better way to celebrate than to invite guests and close friends of the brand to Chinatown for a lively affair?
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 22 June 2025
• Her brother was still processing the events of the crash, sharing that Chinatown was his sister’s hangout spot.
  — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
• She was crowned Miss Junior Chinatown in middle school and was class president in high school.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• At Chinatown, trains would switch onto the Red Line and repeat their itinerary.
  — F.k. Plous, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
• Detroit’s Chinatown was where activists met in response to Chin’s murder and where the coalition formed, city records show.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
• When Seth first looked for volunteers for the event, a Chinatown resident in his seventies got in touch.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 11 June 2024
• Marte’s district includes Chinatown and parts of the Lower East Side.
  — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 28 May 2025
• Fast-forward a couple of decades, and I was influenced by Chinatown and Harper.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• Aside from two brief bathroom breaks at her apartment in DC's nearby Chinatown, she’s been here for more than 12 hours.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
• About 200 people were gathered on a rooftop in Chinatown for an art opening inside a former storage shed.
  — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2025
• And our inspiration for the look was somewhere between David Lynch and Chinatown.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
• Don’t miss the city’s famous sourdough bread, dim sum in Chinatown, or a sweet treat from Ghirardelli Chocolate.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2025
• In July, a fast-casual venue was added to the sprawl between Chinatown and Union Station.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Still fighting over the phone, the video surveillance showed Majors take off running with Jabbari in pursuit of him down the streets of Chinatown.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
• The novel takes place in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the mid 20th century.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2023
• The park, which honors the longtime Chinatown activists, is an extension of the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
  — Steph Solis, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
• For more casual eats, the city’s famous Chinatown houses the cult Vietnamese restaurant Pho Cue (watch out for the queue).
  — Claire Marie Healy, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• The guest-favorite stay is ideally located in the Chinatown district near the Arco della Pace.
  — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2025
• In fact, after one such fire, the town forced their Chinese residents to build a new Chinatown across the Truckee River.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
• Reservations are essential weekdays and weekends, and there is a nightly bustle in the big dining room set with Chinese woodwork and hanging lamps that put you in mind of finer dining rooms in Chinatown.
  — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025