How to Use segregate in a Sentence

segregate

verb
Definition of segregatenext
Synonyms for segregatenext
  • Many states at that time continued to segregate public schools.
  • The civil rights movement fought against practices that segregated black and white people.
  • And for the first eight years of my life, my town was segregated.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Some may be asked to wear a mask, segregate from others on the job or to work from home.
    — Dee Depass, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
  • What was shocking to me was the fact that the United States was still segregated.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The result was to segregate where Black and white people and Black and Latinx people would live in cities.
    — Leah Shaffer, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Why does the brain segregate the processing of faces from that of other objects?
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The next day, an email told inmates that the prison would segregate those who tested positive in A, B and D dorms.
    — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
  • One player said the team was segregated by race, with Black players on the defensive side of the ball and white ones on offense.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • The goal of the renovation is to segregate the public areas vs. the private spaces.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 4 June 2021
  • Talon’s idea is to take a work device - any smartphone or PC - and seamlessly segregate the personal use from the work use.
    — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
  • At many stores and in the beauty aisles, curly hair products seemed to be segregated from other products that cater to people with straight hair.
    — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • After high school, Saar wanted to study art, but art schools at that time were largely segregated.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The album skyrocketed to the top of the charts and came at a time when the music industry was still largely segregated.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Milwaukee is the state's largest and most diverse city and one that has long been recognized as among the most racially segregated in the nation.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2023
  • The suffragette movement and the military in the 1940s were largely segregated.
    — Emily Listfield, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Racial violence Before the 1920s, swimming pools in the North were segregated along gender lines but not racial ones.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • Ukraine avoided using weapons or equipment that could be traced to U.S. sources, and even covert funding streams were segregated.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • And no one, not even Bullard, knew how segregated the most polluted places really were.
    — Yessenia Funes, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But to segregate unauthorized immigrants from the census totals for each state, there first had to be a census.
    — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Teen-agers in Iran aren’t used to inhabiting a public space without the segregating effect of head scarves.
    — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • About 50 years ago, there was a zombie apocalypse and even though the zombies posed no threat, they were segregated and required to live in Zombietown.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 17 July 2023
  • But the court also ordered election officials to segregate and preserve them, setting the stage for a legal fight.
    — Charles Homans, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Rag pickers from nearby slums often trek up the towering mounds and scour through the waste for a few cents per day, but they are not trained in properly segregating it.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The San Diego canneries were segregated, the women had to deal with frequent speed-ups and workplace injuries were common.
    — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The town in Alabama's Black Belt has deep roots in slavery, and even its cemeteries are still racially segregated.
    — Steve Osunsami, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The graves had been racially segregated during apartheid, and headstones of white people remained clustered at one end.
    — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The use of long-term isolation increased, and many prisoners have been left segregated for many months to more than a year at a time, according to court documents.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • Even at that tender age, Sargent knew segregating Blacks — denying them housing, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness — was wrong.
    — Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Some police departments have started to segregate reports of package theft into their own category, which does show some worrying signs.
    — Haleluya Hadero, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023

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