Example sentences for: assimilation

How can you use “assimilation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Yes, even if the underclass shrinks through assimilation, the problem of the working poor will still be with us.

  • 4) Assimilation : Second- and third-generation Sicilians, who now control the Mafia, place less emphasis on the omertà --the code of silence that precludes snitching.

  • Outside Israel, intermarriage and assimilation are quickly eroding Jewish communities.

  • The "Negro problem," wrote Norman Podhoretz in 1963, would not be solved unless color itself disappeared: "and that means not integration, it means assimilation, it means--let the brutal word come out--miscegenation."

  • A "personal and poignant defense of assimilation, written in the tradition of Richard Rodriguez and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.," says the BarnesandNoble.com Web site (whatever tradition that might be--apart from the one of books on ethnicity that sell a lot of copies, to which we hope Eric's book does indeed belong).


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