How to Use migrate in a Sentence

migrate

verb

• They followed the migrating herds of buffalo across the plains.
• Thousands of workers migrate to this area each summer.
• The whales migrate between their feeding ground in the north and their breeding ground in the Caribbean.
• He migrates from New York to Florida each winter.
• But when fall arrives, the boy must go to school, and the owl must migrate.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2023
• The adult worms lay eggs, and then the larvae migrate to other parts of the body.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
• The eelgrass in the refuge is a magnet for migrating ducks and geese.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• The soaps start to clump together to form the blisters and migrate through the paint film.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2022
• And — there won’t be as many of the big furry critters to migrate.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
• The worms will migrate to the top tray, leaving the castings behind.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
• And the chaos never really shuts off until the birds migrate south in the fall.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
• The friend had migrated from Venezuela, and the family opened their doors to him.
  — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
• Many of these species have to migrate in order to survive.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 22 Sep. 2022
• With large bodies and short legs, gators cannot migrate over land.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• In response, the sea cows migrated to the park’s springs, which tend to be 72 degrees year-round.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• Issues on the back burner, if not addressed, inevitably migrate to the top of the queue.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
• The night progresses, and their bodies migrate from the dance floor to a bedroom.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2023
• But as the oceans warm, the mollusks are migrating further north.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• Both East and Tern were packed with wildlife that migrated away in summer and fall.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Killed off in Colorado by the 1940s, some have since migrated here across state lines.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• Will people have to migrate in the future due to extreme heat?
  — Dominique Mosbergen, WSJ, 20 July 2022
• But this trade seemed to migrate to other countries rather than back to the United States.
  — Li Zou, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
• Many others migrate, as many birds do, to avoid harsh weather, to find food or to breed.
  — Saugat Bolakhe, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• One out of every three birds migrating through the U.S. in spring passes through Texas.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 10 May 2023
• The couple migrated to the West Bank years ago and planted grass, trees, herbs and flowers.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• This could happen if the City of Portland migrates oak species from places to the south, Tallamy noted.
  — Nathan Gilles, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• The agreement allows for up to 280 people a year to migrate from Tuvalu.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
• All the streets are dark, the houses identical, in the sky ragged clouds race, and huge flocks, wings creaking like oars, migrate to the safety of the mind.
  — D. Nurkse, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
• Prabha is older and married, although her husband has since migrated to Germany and hasn’t called her in over a year.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2024
• Bahamians could not migrate to Florida for work any longer.
  — Sasha C. Wells / Made By History, TIME, 26 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025