How to Use emigrate in a Sentence

emigrate

verb

• The boat was stuck in the mud when Singh, who emigrated from England, bought the store two decades ago.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
• This is home to the Zuckers who cross a red line debating whether to emigrate to Brazil.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021
• The opera was written in the late 1960s, when Jews were trying to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• Thousands would emigrate, but most would not be able to leave.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• The rise in hostility has led many to live in anger and fear or even to emigrate from the country.
  — NBC News, 28 Sep. 2020
• My father, Willy Reich, was from Zurich and emigrated to the States in 1956.
  — Jimmy Camp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
• Hundreds of thousands have emigrated since the end of communism in the 1990s and the chaos that ensued.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• After a week in the Motor City, Paul, who had emigrated from Sicily in 1961, returned to the site to take the train home.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
• My dear niece and her husband are planning to emigrate to Israel in the next month, and their baby will be born there.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 14 May 2021
• My partner’s parents, on the other hand, emigrated from the Philippines in the 1960s.
  — Samantha Vincenty, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2023
• More than a quarter would like to emigrate, according to Gallup, a polling firm.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• Now Cubans are required to travel to third countries to apply for a visa to visit or emigrate to the US.
  — Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 25 June 2021
• There were not many Jews in these towns either, and the few who were there were stripped of their livelihoods and often compelled to emigrate.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2021
• Those who went through the earthquake [in 2010], emigrated [to the Bahamas] for a better life, were left with nothing again.
  — Paul Moakley, Time, 21 Sep. 2019
• Born in 1761, Tubbs emigrated to the United States during her teenage years.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2019
• His parent emigrated to Canada in the 50s by Red Cross boat.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2020
• Conscription-age Ukrainians who have emigrated abroad should be called on to come home and join the fight.
  — Jakub Grygiel, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
• Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a heart surgeon who emigrated from Turkey.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
• Many Guatemalans cite fears of extortion and crime as reasons to emigrate.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• The family wound up emigrating to the United States in 1949, when Thorn was still a toddler.
  — Frederic J. Frommer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• This song also makes the point that anyone, anywhere, could be forcibly displaced or feel the need to emigrate someday.
  — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2022
• An Iranian Jew, her parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
• Amidst poverty and recent natural disasters -- and with a friendlier face these days in the White House -- the time had come to emigrate to the US.
  — Natalie Gallón, CNN, 1 Mar. 2021
• Their two surviving sons, who emigrated to the United States years ago, have urged them to leave Ukraine.
  — Sergii Mukaieliants, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• In Mexico, one in three people who emigrate to other states do so to find work.
  — Palabra, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2022
• By 1989, the year the government put down the Tiananmen Square protests, Li’s family was making plans to emigrate.
  — Martin Wolk, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• He was born in London in 1969 to parents who had emigrated from India in search of a better life.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
• Before emigrating from the Philippines, Tamayo worked as a ship captain the Merchant Marines.
  — Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• My father emigrated to the US from India in 1971 and my mother joined him two years later.
  — S. Mitra Kalita, CNN, 11 Apr. 2020
• At 3, she was brought to the U.S. by family members who had emigrated from Mexico, where she was born.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024