How to Use emigrant in a Sentence

emigrant

noun

• Millions of European emigrants came to America in the 19th century.
• But for the most part, these great waves of people were called emigrants, or migrants.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
• The elder Cruz is a Cuban emigrant who relocated to the United States in the 1950s.
  — Matt Ford, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2017
• Nielsen did concede that Trump had nice things to say about Norway and its prospective emigrants to the United States.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Jan. 2018
• The intention is for emigrants from rural areas to the cities to be able to funnel money to their hometowns.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• The series will be set in 1820s’ Boston, a time when the population of the city was mainly composed of emigrants from all walks of life and backgrounds.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• Does that make the pain a French emigrant feels at an underbaked croissant any less acute than the pain of an Englishman in New York faced with a lukewarm cup of tea?
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Today, a massive new wave of emigrants is fleeing to Europe from Syria and Iraq.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2016
• The city has yet to inventory damage to grave markers, many of which mark the resting place of some of the state’s earliest emigrant settlers.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
• Why are so many Irish emigrants willing to travel, some over 9,000 miles, and incur a huge personal expense just to vote yes?
  — Chloe Mac Donnell, Glamour, 24 May 2018
• Droves of emigrants returned home to cast ballots, and those who couldn’t appealed to voters back home with the hashtag #BeMyYes on Twitter.
  — Jennifer Duggan, Marie Claire, 15 May 2018
• The film tells the story of two children who, in order to escape the misery of post-war Naples, face a challenging boat crossing to America, as was the case for so many Italian emigrants at the time.
  — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• But where exactly does resemblance lie for me, an emigrant who never went back to her birthplace?
  — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
• She is considered an emigrant and must obtain a special permit to visit the island.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 14 May 2018
• This waltz type of music was pioneered by the non-black Acadian emigrants from Nova Scotia.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2017
• My wife, the daughter of Italian emigrants, grew up in Geneva and attended the French-speaking compulsory schools.
  — WSJ, 21 June 2018
• The high cost of housing is now a barrier to inward investment, to emigrants returning with skills, to people hoping to start families and who want to move.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• Many of these emigrants came to the United States, with a particularly high number settling in the Washington region.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2017
• His father was a seasonal emigrant who worked in mines in Northern Europe and Argentina.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2021
• Negar Djavadi is, with her story of a family of Iranian emigrants to Paris.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2018
• Brathwaite conjures up a series of emigrants, waiting to leave their islands for countries that, ironically, do not want them.
  — Gabrielle Bellot, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
• Such a policy would require a thorough disclosure of each emigrant’s background and assets, which would be made public.
  — Alex Garcia, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• A large number of emigrants from the neighboring marshes have settled on this territory.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 30 June 2017
• Law, who departed for a still-undisclosed location, was perhaps Hong Kong's first public emigrant of the security law era.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 3 July 2020
• The museum is highly interactive, with videos and on-screen reenactors telling the story of Irish emigrants, both famous and infamous.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 1 June 2023
• This shelf-stable snack served as an incredible source of protein among emigrants traveling along The Overland Trail during the mid-19th century.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
• Even within the hemisphere, the administration has been focused on the crisis in Venezuela, which has unleashed a massive exodus of emigrants that threatens to destabilize the region.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
• But the relationship between Lili and Lyle—both of whom are emigrants in jeopardy from the hegemonic culture, albeit in different ways—is intuitive, rather than overtly drawn.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022
• It’s told by 10 people affected by the disaster, such as a drug trafficker, an emigrant musician and an old woman selling produce in a market.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
• Keynigshteyn, a Soviet Union emigrant who did not understand English, found himself in an unfamiliar place with masked caregivers.
  — oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024