Examples of Chinatown in a Sentence
We had dinner in Chinatown.
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Manila’s Chinatown in Binondo is the oldest in the world, a destination filled with history, culture and culinary delights.
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Ching Dee, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Nowhere is this more evident than in Women’s History Museum’s namesake boutique on the third floor of a building on Canal Street, where Chinatown meets SoHo in New York.
—Fiona Alison Duncan, ARTnews.com, 30 Dec. 2024
A couple days after a portion of the pier featured in The Lost Boys collapsed into the ocean, a scene reminiscent of Chinatown played out along the coast a few hundred miles south.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2024
In an ode to skateboarding ramps on Canal Street, Blue Green Works will debut a series of pendant lights inspired by the half-pipe at Time Again, a corner bar in Chinatown where the crowd frequently spills out onto Forsyth Street.
—Morgan Meier, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2024
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Ching Dee, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Nowhere is this more evident than in Women’s History Museum’s namesake boutique on the third floor of a building on Canal Street, where Chinatown meets SoHo in New York.
—Fiona Alison Duncan, ARTnews.com, 30 Dec. 2024
A couple days after a portion of the pier featured in The Lost Boys collapsed into the ocean, a scene reminiscent of Chinatown played out along the coast a few hundred miles south.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2024
In an ode to skateboarding ramps on Canal Street, Blue Green Works will debut a series of pendant lights inspired by the half-pipe at Time Again, a corner bar in Chinatown where the crowd frequently spills out onto Forsyth Street.
—Morgan Meier, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Chinatown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Chinatown. Accessed 6 Jan. 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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