How to Use Chinatown in a Sentence

Chinatown

noun
  • What does Chinatown mean to you, and how has that changed over time?
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-12-04
  • But now most of the streets in Chinatown are empty after dusk.
    — Rong Xiaoqing, New York Times, 2024-11-24
  • And in February, a crowd in Chinatown set a Waymo car on fire.
    — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 2024-05-03
  • The Chinatown art space Human Resources was in the throes of a deep cleaning.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 2023-09-27
  • But the island’s Chinatown is only one of nine across New York’s boroughs.
    — Rachel Chang, AFAR Media, 2025-05-01
  • Is there a better way to celebrate than to invite guests and close friends of the brand to Chinatown for a lively affair?
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 2025-06-22
  • Visiting Chinatown often reminds me of the beauty in chaos: the smells, the sights, the sounds and, most of all, the dumplings.
    — Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 2024-08-07
  • Men played cards outside the China Trade Gate in Chinatown.
    — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-08-01
  • Her sister, mired in grief, lived near San Francisco’s Chinatown.
    — Paolo Lucchesi, SFChronicle.com, 2020-10-28
  • Detroit’s Chinatown was where activists met in response to Chin’s murder and where the coalition formed, city records show.
    — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 2024-10-23
  • When Seth first looked for volunteers for the event, a Chinatown resident in his seventies got in touch.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 2024-06-11
  • Fast-forward a couple of decades, and I was influenced by Chinatown and Harper.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 2024-09-30
  • Aside from two brief bathroom breaks at her apartment in DC's nearby Chinatown, she’s been here for more than 12 hours.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 2025-01-11
  • And our inspiration for the look was somewhere between David Lynch and Chinatown.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-11-04
  • Don’t miss the city’s famous sourdough bread, dim sum in Chinatown, or a sweet treat from Ghirardelli Chocolate.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2025-02-13
  • In July, a fast-casual venue was added to the sprawl between Chinatown and Union Station.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 2023-09-01
  • Those who stayed rose up in vocal rebellion against the movie, jeering every joke that wasn’t funny, which was all of them, and every beat ripped off from Chinatown, which was half of them.
    — Vulture, 2023-09-14
  • At the Oakland protest, thousands clapped, chanted and marched their way through Chinatown Saturday morning.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 2025-06-14
  • Sarah had been brought up in a religious household, gone through her rebellious phase as a teenager, and was now teaching dance at a Christian school in Chinatown.
    — Jason Kersten, Rolling Stone, 2024-03-23
  • Still fighting over the phone, the video surveillance showed Majors take off running with Jabbari in pursuit of him down the streets of Chinatown.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 2023-12-05
  • The company is also adding more of Hollywood, Chinatown, and Westwood to its service area.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 2024-08-06
  • The novel takes place in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the mid 20th century.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-07-18
  • The park, which honors the longtime Chinatown activists, is an extension of the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
    — Steph Solis, Axios, 2024-08-14
  • The guest-favorite stay is ideally located in the Chinatown district near the Arco della Pace.
    — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, after one such fire, the town forced their Chinese residents to build a new Chinatown across the Truckee River.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 2024-11-26
  • A couple days after a portion of the pier featured in The Lost Boys collapsed into the ocean, a scene reminiscent of Chinatown played out along the coast a few hundred miles south.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 2024-12-27
  • Reservations are essential weekdays and weekends, and there is a nightly bustle in the big dining room set with Chinese woodwork and hanging lamps that put you in mind of finer dining rooms in Chinatown.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Eric and Jennifer Burpee, a married couple who went to Chinatown after church earlier in the day, also stopped by Zhen’s post to listen and donate money.
    — William Tong, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Liu and cinematographer Ante Cheng capture the couple and the city with an ebullient dynamism, making the urban vistas and the crowded streets of Chinatown seem almost idyllic.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Over the past few years, the ten raggedy courts in Leif Ericson Park, adjacent to Brooklyn’s Eighth Avenue Chinatown, have gone from neglected to absolutely buzzing with energy.
    — David Shaftel, Curbed, 26 Aug. 2025

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