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How to use segregate in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective, verb, noun

Segregate means separate; select. Example: “Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.”

Examples of segregate by meaning

verbTo separate.

  • One aim of the reorganisation on both routes is to segregate completely the operation of the District and Tilbury Lines between London and Upminster, removing physical connections between the two.1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 529

verbIn particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.

  • Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.

nounAn entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.

  • A segregate becomes conspicuous once it is removed from its aggregate.

More sentences with segregate

  • A nothomorph is any taxon of hybrid origin, whether F1, segregate, or backcross.1956, Regnum Vegetabile, volume 8, page 31. From the entry nothomorph
  • Here's your chance to bone up on the segregating, or crediting, or whatever you call it.1914, Kathleen Norris, chapter 2, in Saturday's Child. From the entry bone up
  • For microalloys the boundary can be treated as a thin layer of the segregating element including segregating impurities.2020, Florent Calvo, Nanoalloys: From Fundamentals to Emergent Applications, page 194. From the entry nanoalloy
  • Eventually they came out onto Hunter Avenue, a main thoroughpass segregating Hollywood's blue-collar district from the ritzier multimillion-dollar homes.2010, Michael Laimo, The Demonologist. From the entry thoroughpass
  • Instead of uniting the people, it's segregating it.2009 October 26, Loppan Torkel, “Refugees, immigrants and labour migration”, in Civilization Fanatics Center. From the entry commielike
  • And here come Sophie and her four offsprings which we have been unable thus far to segregate into ducks and duckesses.1938 September 17, “From the Editor’s Easy Chair”, in Welford Beaton, editor, Hollywood Spectator, thirteenth year, volume 13, number 17…. From the entry duckess
  • I answer by saying that I have worked too long and hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern.1991, James Melvin Washington, editor, A testament of hope: the essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, page 636. From the entry long

Meaning of segregate

  1. adjective Separate; select.
  2. adjective Separated from others of the same kind.
  3. adjective Separate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.

Full definition of segregate

Questions about segregate in a sentence

How do you use segregate in a sentence?
Segregate is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.”
What is a short sentence with segregate?
“Instead of uniting the people, it's segregating it.”
What does segregate mean?
Segregate means separate; select.

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