How to Use migrant in a Sentence

migrant

noun
  • Not all birds are migrants.
  • The death of migrants in the desert has been ongoing for decades.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The office did not say if the migrant attempted to use the weapon.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • In April, the city took migrants from Truman College and sent them to a shelter in the Loop.
    John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • After the end of the civil rights movement, in the late 1960s, the waves of Black migrants fleeing the South slowed.
    Victor Luckerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
  • That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But the group does publish maps showing where migrants have died in the desert.
    Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • So many of us are migrants or the descendants of migrants.
    José Olivarez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Last month, the city began busing dozens of migrants to a handful of hotels north of the city.
    Jake Offenhartz, ajc, 7 June 2023
  • The migrant was shot once in the left shoulder and taken to a McAllen hospital.
    Paul J. Weber, Chron, 24 Jan. 2023
  • That changed in the 1990s as meat packers began to recruit more migrants and refugees.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Now, the Salvadoran migrant has no idea when, or if, his chance will come.
    Elliot Spagat, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Some migrants are given more time to stay in the United States than others.
    Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The judge noted that such pathways are not available to all migrants.
    Rebecca Santana, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • On the basketball court, some gasped in horror when bandits opened fire on a group of migrants on the screen.
    Elian Peltier Annika Hammerschlag, New York Times, 18 May 2024
  • Yeah, try telling that to the immigrants, the migrants, the refugees risking their lives to come to the United States of America.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In order to get to the border these days, migrants almost always have to pay.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 10 June 2024
  • Just a day earlier, about 150 migrants had gathered at the same spot.
    Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • Colombia happens to be a key steppingstone for migrants from around the world.
    Terence McGinley, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • What’s got migrants rushing to the U.S. southern border?
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024
  • What to know Trump claims Springfield, Ohio migrants are eating pets.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2024
  • But then migrants poured through gaps in the border barrier, just down from the compound.
    Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Many of the right-wing protestors claim the high number of migrants in the U.K. fuels crime and violence.
    Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2024
  • For every migrant that used to arrive in the Tucson area, six now come, from Mexico and around the world.
    Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • The migrants just keep marching, at times signaling to each other to crouch lower to keep out of view.
    David Culver, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The first batch of migrants was bused to a makeshift tent city in Brooklyn on Sunday and took one look and were ready to leave, according to reports.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Thousands of migrants live upstairs in its 1,025 rooms.
    Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 25 May 2024
  • Trump also made a joke about his campaign’s focus on the border and migrants.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Throughout the election campaign this year, Trump has also pledged to carry out mass deportations of migrants in the country illegally, to tackle crime, although the plans have raised concerns.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In June, the president imposed tough new restrictions on asylum that dramatically reduced the number of migrants entering the country — an achievement that Harris has touted in her campaign.
    Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024

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