How to Use gentrification in a Sentence

gentrification

noun
  • Many of these tools have become agents of gentrification.
    Chris Gilliard, Wired, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Low birth rates and gentrification have also brought on steep enrollment declines.
    Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The Times keeps linking to a report that says gentrification causes rat outbreaks.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Now that activism is being reactivated, this time in the fight against gentrification.
    Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2021
  • To the north, some, like Ms. Crockett, of the alumni association, are on the lookout for signs of gentrification.
    Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2021
  • And the gentrification of Harlem is part of the story here too.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Much has changed on this block in 14 years, but back then, the Heights hadn't reached peak levels of gentrification.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 28 July 2022
  • Harvey is proud to say that West Side Books has thus far survived the gentrification in the area.
    American Booksellers Association, USA TODAY, 18 May 2024
  • Known to New Yorkers as Bed-Stuy, the area has had its ups and downs over the past several decades and is now in the throes of late-stage gentrification.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2023
  • At the dawn of gentrification, some of the layers were being undone, chipped at or stripped away.
    Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • The poems lament gentrification, meditate on nature, and find joy in the gross and the weird.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The gentrification, and people who look a certain way and don’t have the credentials are just pushed out?
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 July 2024
  • More new housing means gentrification that will turn the city white.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Hamaguchi takes no stand on the tragedy of gentrification.
    Armond White, National Review, 8 May 2024
  • The upheaval of gentrification is a theme of many of the pieces, which include paintings and collages as well as 3D assemblages.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In that time, he’s seen gentrification spread to areas like Temescal and Mosswood but stop abruptly at the highway.
    Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Some folks did already live in the Dickson Street area, and those who did complained the project was gentrification in action and the old neighborhood would be pushed out.
    April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The novel takes on the issue of gentrification with grace and refreshing truth.
    Lorraine Avila, refinery29.com, 17 May 2022
  • Some have raised the question of gentrification in areas like Portland as well.
    Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Here and elsewhere, the maps reveal gentrification in slow motion, block by block.
    Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Austin transplants traveling to a small town in Texas to claim a derelict property as part of some gentrification scheme.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Act Two is set in the same house, now in a predominately Black neighborhood trying to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2024
  • It’s just one example of gentrification on the city’s west side, according to the speakers.
    Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Many spaces that were used as jazz venues in the early 1900s are no longer around, DeVeaux said, the buildings knocked down and turned into high-rises—the victims of gentrification.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Then came a tidal wave of gentrification, wage stagnation, federal cuts to housing and cash aid, plus shocks like the AIDS and drug epidemics.
    Calmatters, The Mercury News, 17 July 2024
  • This narrative seems to have a strong appeal to tech people, who have been driving the town’s latest rush of gentrification.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Of course, gentrification is about much more than $6 lattes.
    Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The biggest worry many had was about gentrification, Mr. Driscoll said.
    Jim Zarroli, New York Times, 3 June 2023
  • Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.
    cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Calloway has seen gentrification change other neighborhoods in South L.A., leaving fewer worshipers in church pews.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024

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