How to Use Chinatown in a Sentence

Chinatown

noun

• We had dinner in Chinatown.
• But now most of the streets in Chinatown are empty after dusk.
  — Rong Xiaoqing, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
• Public safety and crime A hit-and-run crash left one dead, six injured and a vehicle overturned near Chinatown.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
• One place that did pan out was the Chinatown section of Bangkok.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 June 2024
• Visiting Chinatown often reminds me of the beauty in chaos: the smells, the sights, the sounds and, most of all, the dumplings.
  — Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2024
• The Chinatown art space Human Resources was in the throes of a deep cleaning.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• And in February, a crowd in Chinatown set a Waymo car on fire.
  — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
• Men played cards outside the China Trade Gate in Chinatown.
  — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• Nor do any of the drinks at Stay, a zero-proof cocktail lounge that has just opened in a storied Chinatown building.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• These Chinatown bakeries have been doing this for so long.
  — Ligaya Mishan David Chow, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• In July, a fast-casual venue was added to the sprawl between Chinatown and Union Station.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Detroit’s Chinatown was where activists met in response to Chin’s murder and where the coalition formed, city records show.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
• The park, which honors the longtime Chinatown activists, is an extension of the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
  — Steph Solis, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
• For more casual eats, the city’s famous Chinatown houses the cult Vietnamese restaurant Pho Cue (watch out for the queue).
  — Claire Marie Healy, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• She was crowned Miss Junior Chinatown in middle school and was class president in high school.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Still fighting over the phone, the video surveillance showed Majors take off running with Jabbari in pursuit of him down the streets of Chinatown.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
• Fast-forward a couple of decades, and I was influenced by Chinatown and Harper.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• The novel takes place in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the mid 20th century.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2023
• When Seth first looked for volunteers for the event, a Chinatown resident in his seventies got in touch.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 11 June 2024
• And our inspiration for the look was somewhere between David Lynch and Chinatown.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
• In fact, after one such fire, the town forced their Chinese residents to build a new Chinatown across the Truckee River.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
• Another lender that Wong’s office works with is Citibank, which has a bilingual office in Chinatown.
  — Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
• The protest in London’s bustling Chinatown brought together a variety of activist groups to oppose a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes.
  — Ishaan Jhaveri, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Those who stayed rose up in vocal rebellion against the movie, jeering every joke that wasn’t funny, which was all of them, and every beat ripped off from Chinatown, which was half of them.
  — Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
• Osorio on most days is responsible for the northern half of the Green Line, stretching from Greenbelt to Chinatown.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
• This tiny spot in Chinatown is home to a chef who cooked for the consul general of San Francisco and his food is both refined and accessible.
  — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• The director had his way, and the film comes to its memorably shocking conclusion as Evelyn attempts to flee with her daughter in a car on a street in Chinatown.
  — Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
• Her sister, mired in grief, lived near San Francisco’s Chinatown.
  — Paolo Lucchesi, SFChronicle.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• Police were called to a Chinatown condo building on Market Street around 11 p.m. local time.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024
• Sarah had been brought up in a religious household, gone through her rebellious phase as a teenager, and was now teaching dance at a Christian school in Chinatown.
  — Jason Kersten, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024