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 | [e-mail], 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
• This might sound like old news, but these asylum-seekers are getting through the border.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 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
• But here in Reynosa, time is a major concern for asylum-seekers.
  — Rosa Flores and Rosalina Nieves, CNN, 13 Apr. 2022
• The partial ban on asylum claims will take effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 4 June 2024
• Aside from the tensions with Belarus, Poland has also long been at odds with the EU’s leadership over the issue of refugees and asylum across the bloc.
  — Frey Lindsay, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
• The non-inclusion of Muslim asylum seekers in this list was thorny.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 9 May 2022
• This law, moreover, gives immigrants a variety of procedural rights, such as the right to claim asylum.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025
• After claiming asylum and being detained for a few days, ICE released them and ordered them to check in routinely with the federal agency.
  — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2025