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Example sentences for: enclaves

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By the time Bradley applied to college in the early '60s, selective schools such as Princeton and Yale viewed themselves as intellectual training grounds, not the clubby enclaves of previous times.
Generally, our opponents came from ethnic enclaves in the distant suburbs.
By 1920, the Mafia had established "families" (chapters) in most Italian-American enclaves, even in midsized cities like Rochester, N.Y., and San Jose, Calif.
Because my city experience was largely limited to student enclaves, however, nothing prepared me for establishing turf in a working-class urban neighborhood.
For these writers--let's call them the philo-traditionalists--the modern world that lured the Philip Roths and Saul Bellows and Norman Mailers away from their childhood enclaves doesn't glisten with its old come-hither.