How to Use gentrify in a Sentence

gentrify

verb

• As the neighborhood became gentrified, the people who had lived there for many years could no longer afford it.
• Scroll through the gallery above to see where the fastest-gentrifying ZIP codes are in America.
  — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
• Guggenheim and his creative team just decide to gentrify the Glades and then move on.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 11 Sep. 2017
• City officials have denied that the shooting was the product of a push to gentrify.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2020
• With prices sure to rise, will the Corktowners who have outlasted the bad times now be forced out by gentrifying forces?
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2018
• At the time, of course, when this came out in 1994, I was said to be like a conspiracy kook to think that someone would be trying to gentrify the Bay Area, much less Oakland.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 8 Oct. 2018
• The family has always been on the front lines of gentrifying Brooklyn.
  — Elizabeth Greenwood, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• After the storm in 2005, the adjacent neighborhood began to gentrify, and sometime between then and the abandonment of the naval base locals named it the End of the World.
  — Nathaniel Adams, Chron, 26 Apr. 2022
• Torres wasn’t convinced that the group can suppose to speak for the neighborhood, which sits in the corner of rapidly-gentrifying Five Points.
  — Alex Burness, The Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• American cities are looking more and more European these days, as the rich gentrify the downtowns and the poor are banished to the outer suburbs.
  — Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
• Gentrifying neighborhoods—whether deep in Brooklyn or on a hillside of Rio de Janeiro—are where those forces clash.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 May 2017
• The city of Naples, Keeys said, has worked to gentrify the area in recent years but has not built a sea wall that could provide more protection during hurricanes.
  — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
• That’s one of the highest in the nation and a driving force behind a wide range of new food choices being offered in a rapidly gentrifying city.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• The patrons are a mix of people from the neighborhood of Pendleton, which seems to be pretty rapidly gentrifying.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Around 2005, Fishtown began to gentrify, and a young, racially diverse, middle-class group of people moved in.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2020
• But light technicians, grips and actors won’t be the first to gentrify the area, where cement mixers continue to queue at concrete plants.
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• The blocks surrounding Brewnuts have been quickly gentrifying with lots of new restaurants and funky boutiques.
  — Larry Olmsted, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
• This is, at least, the perspective of the novel’s narrator, Lizzie, a grad-school dropout living at the frontier of gentrifying Brooklyn.
  — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2020
• Neighbors are suspicious of school district plans for the building, which include ending high school programs there, just as the area starts to gentrify.
  — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 4 June 2018
• And to women such as Stephanie, a single mom who supports her two young daughters dancing, who are caught in the middle of a proxy battle for the gentrifying city’s future.
  — Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
• Long Island City was quickly gentrifying before the new tax law.
  — Bernard Condon, The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018
• Her goal was to gentrify him sufficiently to win him a scholarship to Harvard.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• Then in 2010, just as Harlem started gentrifying, Samuelsson opened a restaurant there called Red Rooster.
  — Kelli Kennedy, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 June 2018
• And while Windham has been gentrifying for years, Mr. Fromer said the town had not yet been overrun by high-end retailers and luxury amenities.
  — Claire Fahy, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• In extreme cases, digital nomads can gentrify an area to the extent that locals can no longer afford to live in it—or even feel welcome to do so.
  — Diana Hubbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 June 2021
• On the other hand, the liberal affluent class might decide to look for another city to gentrify.
  — Fortune, 22 Jan. 2018
• The Warriors could gentrify the NBA in one fell swoop, pricing out every would-be superteam in the process with a product that might be literally unbeatable.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 27 June 2018
• In 1968, when the building was just a vacant lot in the fast-gentrifying South End, King spearheaded protests to demand affordable housing.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• Sixth Street serves a crucial role in the city’s housing and social service infrastructure, a refuge for the city’s poor in rapidly gentrifying South of Market.
  — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2018
• Antoine and Olga are guilty of gentrifying the place for their loftier dreams of sustainability, yet that still doesn’t justify the primal instincts that drive Xan and Lorenzo.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024