Gentrifying is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gentrifying meaning
present participle and gerund of gentrify
Using Gentrifying
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of gentrify
- In the example corpus, gentrifying often appears in combinations such as: rapidly gentrifying, in gentrifying, gentrifying neighborhood.
Context around Gentrifying
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 14 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gentrifying
- In this selection, "gentrifying" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rapidly, fastest, further, neighborhood, neighborhoods and zip stand out and add context to how "gentrifying" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rapidly gentrifying bronx neighborhood and a rapidly gentrifying city. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gentrifying" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gentrifying
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Until now, the idea of gentrifying previously redlined neighborhoods was unthinkable. (11 words)
We as a country have a habit of gentrifying our memories of specific events. (14 words)
American tourists and remote workers are gentrifying some of Mexico City’s most treasured neighborhoods. (15 words)
Each year for two weeks in this once predominantly Italian enclave, the Feast of Our Lady Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nolaconsumes the streets of the rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood that is now better known for its hipster community. (40 words)
Collier pointed out a men’s shelter in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Lockwood, where he’d recently seen a drug deal go down a block away from a house that had sold for half a million dollars. (38 words)
I won’t quickly forget being told by an assessor’s office employee that if I couldn’t afford to live in a gentrifying neighborhood, I should get out — which is exactly what I had to do. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
American tourists and remote workers are gentrifying some of Mexico City’s most treasured neighborhoods.
More than a half-century later, Restoration faces a different set of challenges, the outcome of shifting demographics that have made Bed-Stuy one of the fastest gentrifying ZIP codes in the country.
Ultimately, this airport expansion, if approved, will irreversibly change the character of Aspen by further gentrifying the town and disenfranchising the local residents with the big city taint.
Much of the public housing built under his watch exists to this day and shelters residents who otherwise could never afford to live in a rapidly gentrifying city.
That includes historic wooden trim, bay windows and a garage, which combine to make a house usually only available in high-income, gentrifying parts of Milwaukee.
The film depicts the rapidly gentrifying Oakland of the 2010s while critically examining capitalism and greed.
Vampires vs. the Bronx is a coming-of-age horror comedy that follows a trio of best friends living their lives day by day in a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood.
In the following decades, street art — murals commissioned by landlords and businesses or done by collectives in gentrifying neighborhoods — became trendy as the city experienced an economic and population boom.
Then came the trickle-down effect of new condo buildings in gentrifying Pointe-St-Charles, as workers looked for housing nearby.
As with so many aspects of the housing crisis, the crunch for seniors is most obvious in gentrifying neighborhoods.
Collier pointed out a men’s shelter in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Lockwood, where he’d recently seen a drug deal go down a block away from a house that had sold for half a million dollars.
Each year for two weeks in this once predominantly Italian enclave, the Feast of Our Lady Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nolaconsumes the streets of the rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood that is now better known for its hipster community.
Once derided as a hotbed of gang activity, the inland area of L.A.’s rapidly-gentrifying Venice seaside neighborhood is emerging as an epicenter for lavish contemporary architecture and commeasurately hefty real estate prices.
There are people who are concerned that closing the jail is only about gentrifying that area of New York City.
Until now, the idea of gentrifying previously redlined neighborhoods was unthinkable.
We as a country have a habit of gentrifying our memories of specific events.
When she was knocking on doors during campaign season back in 2017, Murillo says, she met residents in rapidly gentrifying west Aurora, which falls in her district.
Central Station is just one of a handful of properties Ford has purchased in Corktown, increasing the value of an already rapidly gentrifying neighborhood overnight.
He seamlessly negotiated the demands of feature film in this story of an ex-convict in a gentrifying neighborhood directed by and starring his friends from theater, Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.
I won’t quickly forget being told by an assessor’s office employee that if I couldn’t afford to live in a gentrifying neighborhood, I should get out — which is exactly what I had to do.
Common combinations with gentrifying
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- rapidly gentrifying 7×
- in gentrifying 5×
- gentrifying neighborhood 5×
- gentrifying neighborhoods 2×
- of gentrifying 2×