How to Use expat in a Sentence

expat

noun
  • Each type of loneliness — as an expat, as a mom — seemed to reinforce the other.
    Olga Mecking, The Cut, 22 Sep. 2017
  • There are an estimated 56 or 57 million expats worldwide.
    Nancy Trejos, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2017
  • In the case of Jim & Dad's, the idea for a destination brewery was one that had been fermenting for some time—when Sung was an expat himself.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
  • One way to make the transition easier: Tap into expat communities.
    Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Homesick Countries collection will remind expats of their homeland, or bring back happy memories of your last vacation.
    Lyndsey Matthews, Country Living, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The Homesick Countries collection will remind expats of their homeland, or bring back happy memories of your last vacation.
    Country Living, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Hawaii expats to the mainland brought their love of Spam musubis with them.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Hong Kong expats in the same age range received a 41% bump.
    Adam Rasmi, Quartz at Work, 9 July 2019
  • As an adult, he's been an expat ever since a stint in the Peace Corps in Ukraine.
    Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 8 July 2022
  • Hong Kong tops the list for Asia’s priciest expat rentals.
    Joanna Ossinger, Bloomberg.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The blessing and the curse of Australia, for us expats, is its distance.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
  • These are the world’s top 20 most expensive places for expats to live: 1.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 7 June 2023
  • According to the lawyer, the future expats would help fund the village.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
  • But Swift and the band are also linked as country music expats of sorts.
    Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The British expat describes men sporting a cricket sweater on the field and then to postgame drinks at a pub in London.
    André-Naquian Wheeler, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2020
  • For the first time ever expats were allowed to cast their votes from abroad in this election.
    Nazih Osseiran and Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 6 May 2018
  • Get a map of Paris and plan your days around sightseeing and meeting expats in cafes.
    Heloise, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
  • The visa is just one more reason for full-time travelers and expats to put Japan on their radar.
    Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2024
  • As with many of his fellow expats, money was the main factor that drew the 25-year-old to China.
    Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 14 June 2019
  • As an expat from the UK, I'm used to waking up to a rash of messages from the motherland and beyond.
    Adam Charlton, CNN, 17 July 2022
  • Robert Murat is a British expat who lives in Praia da Luz.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The expat-friendly district is known for its trendy bars, clubs and restaurants.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Randy Kennedy is one of those Texas expats who can’t shake the state from his imagination.
    Dan Singer, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2020
  • About 1,500 Lebanese expats in Brazil are expected to vote.
    Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Yes, Oprah has a palatial house there, and a certain English expat calls it home.
    Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 19 July 2023
  • Murphy, arts patron and muse, was part of Fitzgerald’s South-of-France expat crowd.
    Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Hong Kong is the world’s most expensive city to live in as an expat for the second year in a row, according to a new study.
    Alex Millson, Fortune, 8 June 2022
  • So, an expat exploring Japan through a sci-fi thriller.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • There Abby meets a group of expats, one of whom claims to know the truth about Eszter’s last days — but that expat goes missing, and no one seems to think much of it.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Democrat and Republican expats have been campaigning for decades to end it.
    Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 2 Nov. 2024

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