gentrify

How To Use gentrify In A Sentence

• Her attempts to gentrify descriptions of bodily functions regularly ended up in the book of fame in the back. BAD MEDICINE
• It tells the owner of the development that by gentrifying a run-down area of the city, their speculative accumulation actually has a positive, even indispensable social role.
• John O'Leary was 25 years younger, a white sound engineer who'd bought his six-bedroom townhouse just as the neighborhood was beginning to gentrify. For Mr. Bronson, a neighbor's kind act led to a new family
• I thought, uh-oh, they're going to gentrify the place.
• Speakers' Corner has recently been titivated to look more like a garden and it must be a concern that this sacred spot will be lost to us because of a bunch of commercially minded, gentrifying bureaucrats and some simpering talk about the kiddies' Christmas outing. Speakers' Corner tradition is under threat
• We're talking onomastics: for generations town planners have mistakenly thought that a street name has the power to beautify and - more importantly - gentrify.
• Early returns from eastern Ward 1 had the State Board of Education candidate trailing incumbent Dotti Love Wade, but late precincts from the ward's gentrifying south and west reaches pushed him to a hard-won victory. DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 3, 2010
• City leaders promised solutions, but many of them involved gentrifying poor neighborhoods.
• Many are priced out as Manhattan continues to gentrify, says Bronx Councilman James Vacca. Housing occupancy declines, but rentals up in some spots
• But perhaps Warsaw's most intriguing showplace is the Fabryka Trzciny, a rehabbed former marmalade factory in the now artily gentrifying Praga district. East of the Louvre