How to Use stratified in a Sentence

stratified

adjective
  • Add in the stratified, ear-bursting sound design and this is Baz times a bazillion.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
  • Murchison said that three months after the death of George Floyd, the world has become more, not less, racially stratified.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • When the oceans are more stratified, warm water builds up near the surface, with less heat escaping down into the deep ocean.
    Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020
  • In other words, the next few weeks will see Twitter become a much more stratified service.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The Silo is 140+ floors of highly stratified living space, with a vast spiral staircase down the middle.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2023
  • The longer the lake is stratified, the less time that nutrients are available to phytoplankton throughout the open water.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
  • If gases were in stratified layers and CO2 sunk below oxygen, humans would not be able to breathe.
    Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2021
  • However, the oceans warm from the top down, and consequently the ocean is becoming more stratified.
    Kevin Trenberth, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2022
  • There have been numerous brands throughout history that rode up and then rode down the spectrum of stratified brand images.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The American elite is highly stratified, and the chances are going to be that the top echelons will come from private universities.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2011
  • Others wonder if this rich but highly stratified nation can afford not to.
    Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2020
  • The singular characteristic of these bays was Great Whin Sill, a band of igneous dolerite — a dusky, crystalline rock — that erupted from the sea in stratified cliffs and headlands.
    Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
  • These sorts of racially stratified descriptors are common in the sports media, from coaches and general managers, and from fans alike.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, this expanding surface warm water is lighter and more buoyant than colder deeper water - which means that, in the words of scientists, the ocean becomes more stratified.
    Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Sequels tend to settle on top of the original volume like stratified layers of sediment.
    Danny Schwartz, EW.com, 29 July 2020
  • The image shows a stratified version of sandwich ingredients layered with plenty of white space in between.
    Sarah Garone, Health, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Nowhere in this immense, stratified city is more democratic or beautiful.
    Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Eventually the borehole will burrow into the Cretaceous System, a stratified layer of rock that dates back to 145 million years ago.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 2 June 2023
  • The earliest evidence of stratified chiefdoms in this part of the Southeast dates to around 1000 C.E., with the beginning of the Mississippian period.
    Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The decor’s stratified scenes of clouds and sky-scraping cityscapes provided a further fashion-forward, futuristic edge.
    Thomas Adamson, ajc, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This stratified environment is why compromise is so hard, both between and within the parties.
    Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2021
  • And just as recipe blogging was difficult to monetize, the grandfluencer economy, too, is somewhat opaque and stratified.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But for all its diversity, Miami still ranks among the most segregated and unequal cities in the country—and opportunities in the tech sector are still stratified along racial lines.
    Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The protocol relies on a stratified hierarchy of devices; at the bottom are everyday servers.
    Clay Risen, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Some of these societies were highly stratified and hierarchical, with élites and, in certain cases, a kinglike single ruler.
    David Treuer, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • There weren’t many innocent people in Céline’s world, and most of the truly evil forces were always hidden away behind the facade of a stratified society maintained by soldiers, doctors, and bureaucrats like him.
    Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2022
  • After over a year of entertainment filtered through the stratified silos of streaming home screens, this summer’s films will attempt to revive the idea of movies as a mainstream, communal experience.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 24 May 2021
  • The Bronze Age is known for its epic heroes, grand civilizations — the ruins of some still stand today — and of course, the increasing development of precious objects as some cultures became more socially stratified.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Green New Deal is an off-ramp for Boston residents who don’t want to experience a racially and economically stratified climate dystopia.
    Miles Howard, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Political pluralism in the form of stratified societies, urban populations and an emerging bourgeoisie balanced the power of the modern state since its birth.
    Alberto Mingardi, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022

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