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How To Use gentrify In A Sentence

• This attracted the yuppies (and the liberal artsy types), who have been slowly gentrifying the town for the past 20 odd years.
• On the Downbelows' debut, Toronto punk vets (ex-members of Trigger Happy, Tirekickers, et al.) gang together for an ode to their favourite rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood.
• If we can tear down a block of historical buildings in Hong Kong and replace them with the 'skysore' like the Lippo Centre in less than a year why does it take eons to gentrify a bit of the turnpike? Jeff DeGraff: The Innovation Do-Over List
• It hardly oozes charm now, although there have been a few attempts to gentrify it.
• In our city most of the anti-war/peace movements are white b/c most of the activists in our city who are Black or Latino are already spending most of their available time on issues pertaining to communitywhich is hard when the city is trying to destroy, otherwise known as gentrify, your community. When do you not mind breaking the law?
• It hardly oozes charm now, although there have been a few attempts to gentrify it.
• The university wanted to put the $125 million, 330,000-square-foot building at the edge of campus, where it would help move the college southward and further gentrify the area.
• The political representatives of the Windsor-Essex region have romanticized the concept of "gentrifying" Windsor to attract financially-secure retirees; considering Canada's demographics, said process is inevitable. The Shadow
• By the late '70s, graffiti had moved from the trains to the walls, and become a key symbol in the efforts of mayors to gentrify low-income communities of color.
• Unless we find a way to lock in affordability, land use around stations will intensely gentrify neighborhoods, and poor people will be continually pushed farther and farther out to the suburbs and less well served urban areas. Energy, Transportation, and Land Use Patterns « PubliCola