How to Use enclave in a Sentence

enclave

noun
  • Most of those in Rafah have moved there to avoid fighting elsewhere in the enclave.
    Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The immensity of the Sinai Desert forced the survivors to remain in the enclave.
    Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
  • But in enclaves where the thuds of artillery serve as white noise, war is never far away.
    Emile Ducke Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Read on to learn why this Dominica enclave continues to top the list.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
  • Only a few dozen Black residents still live in the enclave of modest homes along dirt roads.
    Sharon Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Israel had tens of thousands of soldiers in the Palestinian enclave at the height of the war, the outlet reported.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The agency, one of the largest employers in the enclave, has been a vital lifeline for Palestinians in Gaza for decades.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • This has created an awkward clash in the West Maui resort enclave of Kā’anapali.
    Leilani Marie Labong, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Mountain Brook is the wealthiest enclave in the state of Alabama.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Glendale is an enclave surrounded by the city of Denver.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Their table was set in a private, candlelit, leafy enclave.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 27 July 2023
  • And while two convoys of aid trucks crossed into Gaza from Egypt over the weekend, relief agencies warned that the needs of the 2 million people in the enclave are vast.
    Helen Regan, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
  • As Labor Day nears, all that will be set aside, at least this weekend, in college football enclaves across the country.
    Billy Witz, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • According to a new report from Realtor.com, the New England enclave has seen a shocking spike in home prices since the pandemic.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Israeli forces pierced deeper into the Gaza Strip as part of a new phase of the war, a ground incursion of the enclave’s south after aerial and ground attacks in the north.
    Andrew jeong, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Rafah has become a last refuge for Palestinians fleeing south to avoid Israel’s air and ground campaigns across the rest of the crowded enclave.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
  • This is more than 80% of the enclave’s entire population.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That waiting game seems poised to become even more dangerous as the death toll inside the enclave continues to rise.
    Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • These enclaves, once the backbone of Ukraine’s agricultural eastern steppe, were reduced to ruin as the war passed over them like a flood tide.
    Natalia Yermak Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • Then head to dinner in Andersonville, a Swedish enclave on the northern edge of the city that’s a rare oasis from national chains.
    Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Often, the histories of these enclaves don’t start with a real-time record; rather, the record emerges because someone felt urgent or safe enough to start one.
    Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Stepping through the doors of Kasuri might shock the average tourist visiting Hudson, but also inspire the enclave or well-to-do artists in the area.
    Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Amid the gradual downshift from full-scale war in some parts of Gaza, the fate of the enclave and its 2.1 million inhabitants remains far from clear.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • That was echoed by another source last month who said the pair have been living together in the Orange County enclave.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
  • From a black sand shoreline in Hawaii to a coastal enclave in Maryland that’s populated by wild horses, the best beaches in the US deliver on all of the above and then some.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2024
  • To honor the city, organizers even planned to name the performance stages after local enclaves such as Twin Peaks and Lands End.
    Daniel Kohn, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Most Spaniards, outside of tourist enclaves, were rarely exposed to English—there were no subtitled movies in Franco’s Spain.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Amara Set in the coastal enclave of Agios Tychon, Amara feels like the backdrop of a fabulous vacation.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2024
  • With at least seven more U.S. locations in the pipeline, Chase is going all in on pre-departure enclaves.
    Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2023
  • Ninety percent of people in Gaza are eating less than one meal a day as starvation takes hold in the enclave, according to the World Food Program.
    Frances vinall, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023

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