How to Use refugee in a Sentence

refugee

noun

• Thousands of refugees have fled the area.
• Venezuela is one of the countries in the world with the most refugees in other countries.
  — E.r. Pulgar, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2024
• Can Ukrainian refugees go back to Ukraine in two years?
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
• Lyoya, a Congolese refugee, was 26 at the time of his death.
  — Arpan Lobo, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
• The tent is a makeshift restaurant inside a refugee camp.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2023
• The house was a common hang spot with a feeling of refugee for artist types.
  — Amanda Peukert, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2024
• But in 1991 Ethiopian soldiers forced the refugees to leave.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
• The refugees are brutally chased across the border out of the EU into the darkness of the woods.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
• Lyoya, a refugee from Congo, was on the ground when he was killed.
  — CBS News, 31 Oct. 2022
• Robyn is a refugee from the Bronx with a pocketful of secrets.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
• The militant group Hamas claimed five of the nine killed in this refugee camp this year as their fighters.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
• Pinto and her dad landed at a refugee camp on an island off the Malaysian coast.
  — Clayton Park, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
• The refugees live like long-term residents among Egyptians in big cities like Cairo.
  — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• Many continued to Poland and crossed into Ukraine from there or stayed in refugee camps.
  — Samya Kullab and Hanna Arhirova, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
• The actor spent a year in a refugee camp before arriving in the United States.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
• This part of the country is also home to several large refugee camps.
  — Zoe Magee, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2023
• While some stayed in refugee camps, there was no resources to treat their severe trauma.
  — Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 6 June 2024
• The Haynes family were health refugees to Los Angeles at the turn of the last century.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• How the world supports refugees is a deeply complex issue with no easy answers.
  — Time, 20 June 2023
• Pregnant women will give birth in makeshift shelters and refugee camps.
  — David Ovalle, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• Those who rushed to the scene of the latest deadly airstrikes in the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya found a hole 20 meters (65 feet) deep where a home once stood.
  — Samy Magdy and Bassem Mroue, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2024
• Some have been refugees for years; some had moved south after an Israeli warning.
  — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
• To that end the clever little girl wrote an affecting letter to the British refugee committee.
  — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
• But today, there are increasing signs the refugees may have worn out their welcome.
  — Scott McLean, CNN, 24 July 2024
• Manal Swairjo spent her first 23 years of life as a Palestinian refugee in Kuwait.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
• When the family fled the Khmer Rouge, this sausage-making kept the family alive during lean times in a Thai refugee camp.
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• One student’s uncle had been displaced by a flood in Pakistan and was now a homeless refugee.
  — Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Gladkov said the sanatorium in the village of Lavy, about 25 miles from the border, was shelled, killing two refugees and a staff member.
  — Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• With Sarah awaiting surgery, Ms. Foad and her children moved into an apartment for refugees in Bologna.
  — Nariman El-Mofty Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• Before this war with Israel, Lebanon was already dealing with a years-long refugee crisis.
  — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024