How to Use segregation in a Sentence

segregation

noun

• They fought to end the segregation of public schools.
• In this time of segregation, he was sent to the back door.
  — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
• 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
• They were stuffed in rickety wooden cars in the front due to segregation.
  — Tiana Clark, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2021
• Smith was a civil rights leader who fought against segregation on and off the court.
  — Madison Park, CNN, 17 May 2018
• But the extent of segregation in the South took him by surprise.
  — Jason Willick, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• Some dated back to the segregation era, when non-whites were banned from pools.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2022
• Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
  — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2018
• Rodríguez said that for her, the program still amounts to segregation.
  — Brenda Medina, Kyra Gurney and Lena Jackson, miamiherald, 17 May 2018
• 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
• The term was a play on the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation.
  — Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 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
• The county will also cover the segregation-era sign for now.
  — Dana Branham, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Those in segregation spend 23 hours a day alone in a cell.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• The city was built with race and class segregation in mind; only the rich received public services.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Sadly, such segregation of fake news items from their fact-check reports is the norm.
  — Filippo Menczer, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2020
• The gender segregation that shaped public life for decades has dissolved.
  — Vivian Nereim, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
• The internet and social networks have since fed us that segregation on steroids.
  — Stephan Said, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• The lynchings were designed to instill silence and to maintain segregation at all costs.
  — John Hammontree | [e-mail], al.com, 22 July 2019
• Patterson said this segregation is still going on in swim clubs across the country.
  — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2022
• Actions there sparked action across the country to end segregation.
  — Nicholas Sakelaris, star-telegram.com, 8 May 2017
• Critics have argued that a mandate would amount to the segregation of those who cannot or refuse to be vaccinated.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2021
• Some critics charge that a mandate would amount to segregation of those who cannot or refuse to be vaccinated.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2021
• Carl was not just a warrior against housing segregation.
  — Blair McClendon, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• In Montgomery, a city in deepest throughs of segregation.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 23 Dec. 2021
• The report also found that segregation, by both race and class, was more intense in charter schools.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2018
• That segregation would loosen only gradually, in what is still very much a work in process.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2016
• In the three decades since then, racial and economic segregation has steadily increased.
  — latimes.com, 8 July 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024