stratifiedin a sentence
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Middle Schools are stratified into cliques of different types of students.
stratified = divided into layers or subgroups
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Erosion by the river makes it easy to see the stratified rock.
stratified = divided into layers
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She was born into poverty in a rigidly stratified Georgian England.
stratified = divided into layers or subgroups
- The two men drank whiskey from bottles and filled the room with a stratified lake of cigarette smoke in the flame-white light of night.† (source)
- Rural communities are losing their middle class and becoming socially stratified, divided between a small, wealthy elite and large numbers of the working poor.† (source)
- Up to now, we have looked at one of Darwin's arguments for biological evolution, namely, the stratified deposits of fossils in various layers of rock.† (source)
- David always said Lexington was like the limestone on which it was built: layers of stratification, nuances of being and belonging, your place in the hierarchy fixed in stone long ago.† (source)
- Water settled in isothermal layers of uniform stratification.† (source)
- The two women looked across a landscape of vacant lots filled with years of stratified deposits—the age of house garbage, the age of construction debris and vandalized car bodies, the age of moldering mobster parts.† (source)
- In 1966, Labov and colleagues began studying the changing role of "r" in the social stratification of the city.† (source)
- She had found another life in the stratified layers of higher economics, with a doctorate and gainful employment with the Canadian Government.† (source)
- Specks and glints, ragtails of color appeared in the stratified mass of covering soil, fabric scraps from the garment center, stirred by the wind, or maybe that teal thing is a bikini brief that belonged to a secretary from Queens, and Brian found he could create a flash infatuation, she is dark-eyed and reads the tabloids and paints her nails and eats lunch out of molded styrofoam, and he gives her gifts and she gives him condoms, and it all ends up here, newsprint, emery boards, sexy…† (source)
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- It is true that our society is stratified, and very rigidly stratified, on what at first sight appear to be hereditary lines.† (source)
- It was literally teeming, stratified, with the shades of human groups, who had met there for tragedy, comedy, farce; real enactments of the intensest kind.† (source)
- And this same widening gulf—which is due to the length and expense of the higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich—will make that exchange between class and class, that promotion by intermarriage which at present retards the splitting of our species along lines of social stratification, less and less frequent.† (source)
- And again, as she soon discovered, the line of demarcation and stratification between the rich and the poor in Lycurgus was as sharp as though cut by a knife or divided by a high wall.† (source)
- To the schists succeeded gneiss, partially stratified, remarkable for the parallelism and regularity of its lamina, then mica schists, laid in large plates or flakes, revealing their lamellated structure by the sparkle of the white shining mica.† (source)
- It was a kind of satire on Nature: it was the scientific method, the geologic method; it deposited the history of the family in a stratified record; and the antiquary could dig through it and tell by the remains of each period what changes of diet the family had introduced successively for a hundred years.† (source)
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In which sex, drugs and dirty words began to unstratify the culture.†
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standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstratify means not and reverses the meaning of stratify. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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