How to Use gentrified in a Sentence
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In Chicago, a lot of thrift shops are very gentrified now, and used clothes are often more expensive than new clothes.
—Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 20 Jan. 2023
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Today, the city is larger and more gentrified, with far less violent crime and twice as few homicides.
—Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023
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Mel, the mother of two daughters, tries to reclaim her place in a gentrified neighborhood while her kids learn firsthand how to balance their own lives.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2022
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Not far from the Elangeni Gardens, trendy, gentrified markets speak to a vibrant city that many young people find attractive.
—Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 17 May 2023
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His uncle, Mike Gormley, opened the bar in 1983, long before the neighborhood had become the gentrified domain of young families.
—Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
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The film tells the story of a young black man’s efforts to reclaim his childhood home, now an expensive Victorian house in a gentrified neighborhood of San Francisco.
—Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2022
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In a way, the row encapsulates this extremely gentrified part of town, which has changed dramatically since McFadyen arrived in 1978.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Feb. 2022
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As Los Feliz has mutated through the years, from a scruffy and diverse neighborhood into its more sleek and gentrified successor, one of its few reassuring constants is the bookstore around the corner.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
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Most recently, in response to the soulless sameness of the megaplexes, a new kind of gentrified cinema has emerged, with reserved seating, food service and artisanal cocktails delivered to your seat.
—New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
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With better schools and less crime, segregated districts become gentrified, leaving them more racially mixed.
—The Economist, 11 June 2020
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All-seat stadiums replaced standing bleachers, helping to phase out soccer's hooliganistic image and replacing it with something more gentrified.
—NBC News, 16 July 2021
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For the Latinos, the fight was to preserve community anchors including churches, as the neighborhood becomes increasingly gentrified and working-class Mexican families are being forced out by rising rents.
—Julie Bosman Todd Heisler, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
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Organizers specifically chose upscale areas such as the gentrified downtown, Beverly Hills, and the beachside community of Santa Monica to bring their message home.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2020
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Sometimes, more recent Prides feel like a gentrified neighborhood losing its original ethnic or racial soul, or a former friend disappearing into a dysfunctional relationship and after time bearing little resemblance to their former self.
—Pamela Sneed, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 June 2021
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