How to Use segregation in a Sentence

segregation

noun

• They fought to end the segregation of public schools.
• In this time of segregation, he was sent to the back door.
  — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
• In 1939 the library was the site of one of the country’s first sit-ins to protest segregation.
  — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023
• Those in segregation spend 23 hours a day alone in a cell.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• The term was a play on the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation.
  — Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
• And one of the many things is that so many of the women were born into segregation.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022
• Little did the 42-year-old know that her act would help end segregation laws in the South.
  — CNN, 1 Dec. 2020
• But the extent of segregation in the South took him by surprise.
  — Jason Willick, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• Some dated back to the segregation era, when non-whites were banned from pools.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2022
• From there, the protests moved to Canal Street and included lunch counter sit-ins in protest of segregation laws.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• They were stuffed in rickety wooden cars in the front due to segregation.
  — Tiana Clark, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2021
• Smith was a civil rights leader who fought against segregation on and off the court.
  — Madison Park, CNN, 17 May 2018
• Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
  — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2018
• Fox News talk show host Tucker Carlson likened the use of them to segregation.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2021
• Rodríguez said that for her, the program still amounts to segregation.
  — Brenda Medina, Kyra Gurney and Lena Jackson, miamiherald, 17 May 2018
• They were not denied the right to vote or made victims through the racial segregation of schools and neighborhoods.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 2 Nov. 2017
• As a result, the Cubs were cutting 300 boys and girls because of segregation.
  — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 7 Jan. 2023
• In 2009, William & Mary’s board did acknowledge that the college had failed to take a stand against segregation during the Jim Crow era.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2023
• People still sometime make the mistake to think that segregation was only in the South.
  — Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, 3 Apr. 2018
• Sadly, such segregation of fake news items from their fact-check reports is the norm.
  — Filippo Menczer, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2020
• The Midwest, in particular, has some of the highest rates of segregation in its schools and cities.
  — Curbed, 10 Jan. 2024
• The county will also cover the segregation-era sign for now.
  — Dana Branham, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
• The city was built with race and class segregation in mind; only the rich received public services.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• The rush to judgment based on skin color is familiar to those of us who lived through segregation.
  — Robert L. Woodson Sr., WSJ, 16 Apr. 2021
• The library had been open to Black people during segregation, and Justice Thomas had spent many hours there in his youth.
  — Steve Eder, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• But part of our local reckoning with race is about coming to terms with a deep sense of segregation.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2023
• This used to be the site of La Jolla School, a Mexican-only academy set up in the era of segregation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• In Montgomery, a city in deepest throughs of segregation.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 23 Dec. 2021
• People don’t know about this, but (author) Richard Wright wrote about Black guys who always sat in the front of the bus, regardless of segregation.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
• The report also found that segregation, by both race and class, was more intense in charter schools.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 9 May 2024