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
• In 1939 the library was the site of one of the country’s first sit-ins to protest segregation.
  — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023
• Those in segregation spend 23 hours a day alone in a cell.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• The term was a play on the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation.
  — Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Little did the 42-year-old know that her act would help end segregation laws in the South.
  — CNN, 1 Dec. 2020
• 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
• From there, the protests moved to Canal Street and included lunch counter sit-ins in protest of segregation laws.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Fox News talk show host Tucker Carlson likened the use of them to segregation.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2021
• His family couldn’t afford the nicer shops north of the tracks, and no one pushed the segregation issue.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
• The 1992 riots were in many ways a product of segregation.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Rodríguez said that for her, the program still amounts to segregation.
  — Brenda Medina, Kyra Gurney and Lena Jackson, miamiherald, 17 May 2018
• When our parents were growing up in segregation, they weren’t even allowed to go to the pool.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024
• 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
• As a result, the Cubs were cutting 300 boys and girls because of segregation.
  — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 7 Jan. 2023
• In 2009, William & Mary’s board did acknowledge that the college had failed to take a stand against segregation during the Jim Crow era.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2023
• 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 Midwest, in particular, has some of the highest rates of segregation in its schools and cities.
  — Curbed, 10 Jan. 2024
• The county will also cover the segregation-era sign for now.
  — Dana Branham, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
• The city was built with race and class segregation in mind; only the rich received public services.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• 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 library had been open to Black people during segregation, and Justice Thomas had spent many hours there in his youth.
  — Steve Eder, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• Though some are skipping the lunch line, there’s less segregation by the fountain now; more people in plainclothes are mingling with men in blue, chatting and laughing and taking pictures on the red carpet.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
• His research focuses on how employers adjust recruiting strategies in response to growing political polarization and demographic diversity and how these strategies contribute to labor market segregation by political partisanship, gender, and race.
  — Justin Frake, Harvard Business Review, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024