How to Use emigration in a Sentence

emigration

noun

• But with the advent of steamships, by the 1880s intensive emigration had spread from every corner of the globe.
  — TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
• Beijing says the ban is to reduce the spread of Covid, but many in China view it as a way to make emigration more difficult.
  — Yong Xiong, Selina Wang and Nectar Gan, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
• The government crackdown after the 2019 protests has sparked a new emigration wave of Hong Kongers to the U.K. and other countries.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022
• My childhood in Tehran pre-emigration was filled with family and friends, trips to the Caspian Sea, and entire days spent at the pool.
  — Tara Grammy, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Feb. 2023
• George Siosi Samuels is one product of this emigration.
  — Alexander Lee, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2022
• Two wars in the 1990s triggered a wave of emigration, with many Chechens heading for western Europe.
  — Fox News, 17 Oct. 2020
• Guyana, which has one of the world’s highest emigration rates with more than 55% of the population living abroad, now claims one of the world’s largest shares of oil per capita.
  — Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
• Give them more license by granting the right of suffrage and equality, and the chances are that emigration from Southern states may set in, and crime increase.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• Lebanon has been a country of emigration for centuries.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
• The emigration of African physicians has continued to rise.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
• Jewish emigration was the goal of Germany prior to 1942.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• The last notable emigration was in September 1968, when squirrels from Vermont to Georgia took off on a hike.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union rose in the period when Kissinger was firmly in charge of détente.
  — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• And the Cuban regime has benefited from emigration, too.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Aug. 2021
• Egypt has recovered the bodies of 87 Egyptians killed in Libya’s floods on Wednesday, the Egyptian emigration ministry said in a statement.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• But Crotone, emptied by steady emigration to richer northern Italy and abroad, is also trying to reinvent itself as a place where the migrants can work.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• At a rave in the capital on Saturday, young Russians said Moscow’s party scene was notably smaller since the waves of emigration.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• There are larger consequences, too: As a result of emigration, many of the territories are bereft of talent.
  — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
• These problems are exacerbated by a chronic skills shortage caused by the human cost of the war and the emigration of tens of thousands of young professionals.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• In Egypt, the government buried 87 Egyptian victims who died in Libya, according to the country’s emigration ministry.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
• John James Audubon was among the reputable witnesses of what are more properly called emigrations, not migrations.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• Driven by the immigration of white retirees and a slow emigration of Black people, the state’s Black population has dropped over the years to just over a quarter of its 5.2 million residents.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 5 May 2023
• Outlawing the Jewish Agency is unlikely to end Jewish emigration, since people are still able to leave the country.
  — Shaul Kelner, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2022
• Laos is a popular route for Chinese trying to avoid legal emigration.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 4 Aug. 2023
• Many families have members overseas, the result of emigration waves—one of which came after huge riots sparked by Bhindranwale’s death.
  — Parth M.n., WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
• The country’s low birth and fertility rates, coupled with steady emigration, means the population has long been shrinking.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
• Experts say the volume of this emigration is comparable to the Syrian refugee crisis.
  — Daniela Mohor W., CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
• But in Jamaica, a former British colony that has long experienced high rates of emigration, the decision by so many teachers to leave is casting attention on a broader brain drain.
  — Simon Romero Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Maniots claim descent from the ancient Spartans (Napoleon's bodyguards were all from the Mani—tough as hell), but after several lifetimes of emigration and endless feuds, few residents now remain.
  — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024
• After giant pro-democracy protests in 2019, an ongoing crackdown on speech and dissent has dismantled civil society groups and set off a wave of emigration.
  — Tiffany May, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024