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
• Don’t exploit or mistreat the refugee, the orphan, and the widow.
  — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 4 Aug. 2022
• 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
• But war is about to break out in neighboring Ukraine, leaving Poland to bear the brunt of a refugee crisis.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2022
• The actor spent a year in a refugee camp before arriving in the United States.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
• He was born in a refugee camp in Pakistan, where his family had fled from their home in Afghanistan.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• Well, or at least the status that the Kurds de facto have in Syria (and this would save Europe from a new flow of refugees).
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Dec. 2024
• 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
• In fact, at the start of the Syrian refugee crisis, the couple opened their home to 36 relatives.
  — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2022
• Egette Indelele, 22, was born in a refugee camp in Tanzania.
  — Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Meanwhile, the Israeli army is in the midst of an offensive in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 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
• As long the branding does not weaken the future right of the Palestinian refugees, that can be an option.
  — Karl Vick, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
• The area has long been known for its concentration of diverse markets and restaurants, and is home to many refugees.
  — Megan Stringer, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
• For the first time, refugees in their own country have the opportunity to go home and reunite with their families.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025