How to Use immigrant in a Sentence
immigrant
noun- The city has a large immigrant population.
- Millions of immigrants came to America from Europe in the 19th century.
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More than half of the seventh- and eighth-graders in the club are refugees, and almost all are immigrants.
— Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018 -
Apple is bringing the tales of immigrants to the screen.
— Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019 -
In the Bay Area, turning our backs on immigrants hurts us all.
— Peter Leroe-Munoz, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2019 -
And, yes, a false claim of Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats.
— Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2024 -
Italy has one of the world’s lowest birth rates, and few countries are in greater need of immigrants.
— The Economist, 20 July 2017 -
Ghosh is an immigrant from India and the daughter of refugees.
— Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023 -
This approach is new to the country, and also new to me—the daughter of a Guatemalan immigrant.
— Eva Sandoval, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2021 -
What was life like for him as a young immigrant with two children?
— New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021 -
Like about a third of nursing aides, Salma is an immigrant.
— Tara Sklar, The Conversation, 23 Nov. 2020 -
The crowd laughs and cheers as speakers rail against immigrants, politicians and the media.
— The Economist, 18 July 2019 -
Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant who’d risen from humble origins to one of the richest men in the world.
— Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2020 -
And a lot of immigrants are going to see themselves in this story.
— Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023 -
My job: defending the rights of immigrants and refugees.
— Health.com, 26 June 2018 -
The chain traces its roots back to a Seattle shoe store opened by Swedish immigrant John Nordstrom and a partner in 1901.
— CBS News, 19 May 2024 -
Hundreds, if not thousands, of Irish immigrants, free blacks, and convicts lost their lives in the process.
— Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 5 Oct. 2017 -
Stanisława Jóźwiak, a 73-year-old Polish immigrant, was one of those who never made it out of her car.
— Brianna Sacks and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022 -
To the sisters, the treatment of immigrants is a moral issue, not specific to any faith.
— Marie Fazio, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2019 -
My mother, an immigrant, made the art of voting a central pride in her life and taught me to value this right.
— Marie Claire, 16 Oct. 2018 -
About 30% of Asians born in the US have hidden their culture, compared with 15% of Asian immigrants, the report shows.
— Nicole Chavez, CNN, 8 May 2023 -
Health care already relies on immigrants to fill the ranks.
— Carmen Heredia Rodriguez and Ana B. Ibarra, Kaiser Health News, 18 Sep. 2017 -
In 2021 someone set fire to a Guatemalan immigrant’s sleeping bag, leading to the man’s death from burn injuries.
— Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023 -
These protests ultimately paled in the face of the thousands of Mainers who came out to support the African immigrants.
— Jocelyn Ruggiero, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023 -
He was born at home in Santa Clara to Italian immigrants.
— Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 22 July 2024 -
That’s when Sanchez, also the daughter of an immigrant, hit her limit.
— Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2018 -
Born in Portland in 1912, Lee was the second of eight children born to Chinese immigrants.
— Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024 -
The owner is an immigrant who opens early and closes late.
— Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Oct. 2020 -
So for the last few years, the vote-fraud hucksters have focused on a different lie: That undocumented immigrants (brought into the country by Democrats) are voting illegally.
— Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024 -
Nazarian’s film was inspired by his upbringing as an immigrant in LA’s working class neighborhoods.
— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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