How to Use white flight in a Sentence

white flight

noun

• The highways were essential to the white flight of the postwar decades.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
• Two point five kids, a husband who works all day, a dog, white flight.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• The changes played out over the 1960s as white schools were opened to minorities, sparking white flight to the suburbs.
  — Anita Snow, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• By the early decades of the 20th century, white flight from St. Louis to the suburbs was well under way.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• While some attest to white flight as the reasons behind the demise of MySpace, the same can’t be said of Twitter.
  — Chris Gilliard kishonna Gray, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
• But by then white flight had devastated the city’s tax base.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
• Surprisingly, the places with the most white flight were scattered across the country.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 25 Apr. 2018
• That reversed a 60-year trend of white flight that had helped make Detroit the nation’s blackest big city.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2017
• By contrast, North Pullman fell prey to white flight and poverty.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2021
• Once a thriving white community, Grove Park saw white flight in the 1960s.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2021
• Decades of white flight have whittled down the city’s economic footing.
  — NBC News, 13 Mar. 2021
• In the 1980s, white flight began to reshape Ascension Parish.
  — Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 3 Nov. 2019
• Some white flight was brought on by prejudice from those who didn’t want to live near African-Americans.
  — Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2018
• For the first time the city witnessed the disappearance of its economic elite — a sort of white flight without the racial aspect.
  — Ashraf Khalil, Town & Country, 21 Dec. 2012
• That began to change when white flight reached the capital city of Jackson in the 1960s and Rankin’s fields gave way to subdivisions and strip malls.
  — Nate Rosenfield Rory Doyle For The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Amid the crack epidemic and white flight from the city, the department was desperate for recruits.
  — Longreads, 2 May 2024
• The American suburbs, created by white flight from the cities, have long been the site of racialized terror.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2020
• Given that magnet programs began in Montgomery as a way to stem white flight in the 1980s, the magnets have had some impact.
  — Christopher Harress, AL.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The net effect was an outward flow of capital and white flight to the wealthy Oakland Hills neighborhoods.
  — Julian Agyeman, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2021
• One by one — throughout the decades that ushered in desegregation, redlining and white flight — the stores shut down.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2021
• Marty’s family never left the South Bronx, even during the fires, riots, and white flight of the Seventies.
  — Rozina Ali, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• Mayor Henry Maier, though, believed that open housing would only cause white flight and erode his white support on the south side.
  — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
• Then came busing, and white flight, and Proposition 13, which shredded state revenue.
  — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
• For seven years in the mid-2000s, Detroit didn't even have a large grocery chain, in part the result of a long history of white flight from the city and underinvestment.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 16 June 2020
• At the time, cities were looking for ways to improve the diversity of the municipal workforce and limit white flight to the suburbs.
  — Mark Nichols, USA TODAY, 14 June 2020
• Hopgood is not the only example of a white flight academy.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• That the black youths had driven to the county, populated in no small part by decades of white flight from the city, fueled heated exchanges online and over the airwaves.
  — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2018
• Related In the ’60s, white flight ravaged the Bronx, and New York’s subsequent neglect resulted in widespread fires, crime and street gangs.
  — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2023
• But there are vast distinctions between the two sides, the residue of disinvestment and white flight by families like Johnson’s.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• But as disinvestment and white flight took hold in Philadelphia's working class-neighborhoods, many Jewish people moved out of the city and into suburban towns.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024