SEGREGATE in a Sentence

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1. The system of racial segregation that used to exist in South Africa was called apartheid.
2. In the Mississippi Delta, attempts were made to segregate white and Italian schoolchildren.
3. The courts struck down local segregation laws because they violated the federal constitution.
4. All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEGREGATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
segregate
 v.  isolate; separate; divide from the main body
Classic Sentence:
1  In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Even in the country something of this segregation is manifest in the smaller areas, and of course in the larger phenomena of the Black Belt.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence:
1  In the Mississippi Delta, attempts were made to segregate white and Italian schoolchildren.
2  The confirmation wouldn't mean "women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids."
3  The system of racial segregation that used to exist in South Africa was called apartheid.
4  The courts struck down local segregation laws because they violated the federal constitution.
5  In that late summer of 1957, they helped to set all of us, white and black alike, free from the dark shackles of segregation and discrimination.