How to Use asylum in a Sentence

asylum

noun
  • She was granted asylum after it was made clear that she would be killed if she returned to her native country.
  • She asked for political asylum.
  • Ramirez also huddled the asylum seekers in the front of the church to pray.
    The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2023
  • In the past, many migrants would hope to get to the United States and claim asylum.
    Haley Yamada, ABC News, 17 June 2022
  • That would be a disaster, akin to putting the inmates in charge of the asylum.
    Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Once that is done, then the feds can manage the asylum seekers, foot the bill and assist our cities.
    WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Shayevich left Azerbaijan in the Nineties to seek asylum in the United States.
    Bela Shayevich, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • And from outside the walls of the asylum, a movement grows to free them from confinement.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024
  • The arrivals first show that they are allowed to be in the US, while claims for asylum are processed, and then the help begins.
    Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Ceja, at the time of her death, had formal asylum in the U.S. and was awaiting a hearing on the matter.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In the past week alone, more than 2,700 asylum seekers arrived in the city, officials said.
    Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Her group works with refugees in the coastal town of Dover, the landing spot for many of the small boats that carry asylum seekers across the Channel to Britain.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The proposal would impact a small group of asylum seekers, the sources said.
    Molly Nagle, ABC News, 9 May 2024
  • Those made to leave the U.S. face gangs and a Mexican asylum system where cases linger for years.
    Maria Abi-Habib, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • New York will spend $25 million in state funds to rent homes for thousands of asylum seekers.
    USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • At the same time, the asylum seeker costs aren’t the only financial issues the city is facing.
    Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • Claim: The plan will ‘stop the boats’ by deterring asylum seekers from heading for Britain.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The windows were smashed and the asylum seekers were appearing at the windows.
    Amanda Lewellyn, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Today a look at Venezuelan asylum seekers and their tough journey to the US.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The asylum system, by intent and design, does not gel with this approach at all.
    Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • How many asylum-seekers have been bused from the border to New York and Washington?
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The soldiers gripped their rifles in the face of men, women and children seeking asylum.
    John C. Moritz, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The Ukraine conflict isn’t the only cause to donate travel miles to help asylum seekers.
    Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The partial ban on asylum claims will take effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 4 June 2024
  • The non-inclusion of Muslim asylum seekers in this list was thorny.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 9 May 2022
  • An Afghan man who recently crossed the border to request asylum now lives in one of the other bedrooms.
    Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • Refugee and asylum claims, both key targets during Trump’s first term, would once again be sharply curtailed.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
  • Many of those who immigrated to the U.S. have applied for asylum and their cases are still making their way through the courts.
    Julie Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
  • In January, Trump suspended the asylum system at the southern border.
    Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
  • In May last year, an Afghan asylum seeker stabbed six people in Mannheim, including a police officer who later died in hospital.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025

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