How to Use expat in a Sentence

expat

noun

• 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
• 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
• Young took us to a restaurant in the Bastos neighborhood, home to embassies and expats.
  — Paul Hilton, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Diplomatic staff in many cities were unprepared for the long lines of expats.
  — Christine Armario, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
• Downstairs, in the Monastery penthouse, a dozen or so other expats were hanging out.
  — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• But expats struggle with many other aspects of life in the country.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Fortune Europe, 5 Aug. 2024
• But which international city is the most expensive in the world for expats to move to?
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 16 June 2024
• The first bit of fun arrives in the form of George Jum, a fellow expat with whom Chungpa has corresponded.
  — Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
• When Spencer bounded from his bed and wrapped this fellow expat in a bear hug, Robinson was taken aback.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 27 June 2019
• While not as large as Barcelona or Madrid, Seville is still the fourth most populated city in Spain with an active expat community.
  — Katie Seemann, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2024
• This time around, many of Dan’s songs derive from similar threads, the new life he’s made in Paris and navigating an expat existence.
  — Ryan Leas, SPIN, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024