How to Use immigrate in a Sentence

immigrate

verb

• That’s why people from every country on earth so wanted to immigrate to America — and still do.
  — Dennis Prager, National Review, 21 Jan. 2020
• Many years ago, his grandfather had a falling out with his brother, who then immigrated to America.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
• One is African American and the other immigrated from Somalia.
  — oregonlive, 2 Feb. 2020
• Those who want to immigrate there need to explore what are the best options for them.
  — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• Some of them immigrated to the United States, but many did not.
  — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
• One of the best work visas for managers and executives who want to immigrate to the United States is the L-1 visa.
  — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• The Atalele family has been in Gondar for the past 16 years, waiting to immigrate to Israel.
  — Eliana Rudee, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2022
• Amnesty would send the wrong message to millions of people trying to immigrate the right way.
  — Bill Wong, National Review, 30 Sep. 2021
• His father immigrated to the United States from the Philippines in his late teens.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2023
• My family risked everything and worked for years to even get the chance to immigrate.
  — Kristin Wong, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• And the path to a better life — which is often the reason why people immigrate in the first place — becomes that much harder to walk.
  — Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT, 16 Aug. 2021
• Since then, Israel has allowed around 2,000 of the Ethiopians to immigrate.
  — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
• By the time Ramazan, the youngest of the Turgut brothers, immigrated to New York in 2006, business was robust, as the bar scene had exploded in the area.
  — Kaya Laterman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• After seven years in France, Bùi immigrated to the U.S. in 1971.
  — TIME, 16 May 2024
• Her parents had immigrated from Eastern Europe in the 1920s and met in New York.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Mar. 2023
• Um’s own parents immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea, where food was scarce.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 20 July 2024
• When he was approved for a special visa to immigrate to the United States, Arian Ali thought his luck was about to change.
  — New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021
• Those trips to the city were filled with visits to relatives, many of whom my grandparents had helped immigrate to New York.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
• His mom, who immigrated from Cuba, sang in high school and through college but didn’t make a career out of it.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
• Vũ was born in a rural part of Vietnam and immigrated to the United States with their family as a child.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
• Yet folks still seem to want to immigrate to California in droves, judging by the traffic.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2020
• But if a Jew from Japan were to immigrate to Israel and start making sushi in a restaurant, would sushi become Israeli?
  — Reem Kassis, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2020
• Ji, who immigrated from Shanghai to Hawaii in the ‘80s, has put his residence on the island of Oahu on the market for a cool $9.3 million.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
• Each had been to the United States-Mexico border with the hope of immigrating to this country.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• The Pangs, who immigrated to the United States in 1988, wanted their son and daughter to know Chinese culture.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2024
• Donald Trump once asked why more people from Norway didn’t immigrate to the United States.
  — Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• Her mother, who immigrated to the United States from Lebanon, poked her head out of her bedroom and asked about dinner.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• She was born and raised in Racine by her two parents who immigrated from Mexico City.
  — Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
• Yes, my grandparents were doctors outside of the US and immigrated here with their children.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 23 Sep. 2024
• Portugal is also one of the world's easiest countries to which to immigrate.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024