How to Use refugee in a Sentence

refugee

noun

• Thousands of refugees have fled the area.
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Last month, Israel sent hundreds of soldiers, backed by air cover, into Jenin’s refugee camp, a show of force not seen in the West Bank in 20 years.
  — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• The Swimmers is a powerful portrait of their story and the global refugee crisis.
  — Women's Health, 25 May 2023
• As the world can see on cable and social media, 80% of Gaza’s 2.2 million people are now refugees living in squalor.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• News footage soon after showed at least 47 bodies, including children, pulled from the rubble in the refugee camp.
  — Phil Klay, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• In some Polish areas, up to 20% of the population are recent refugees from Ukraine.
  — Byjeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• Rafah is a nearly twenty-five-square-mile area, in which refugees from Gaza City and Khan Younis are now sheltering.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
• Many of these were protests about the lack of affordable housing, or against plainly foolish schemes for housing refugees.
  — The Editors, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
• The film is a dramatization of the plight of refugees stranded on the natural border between Poland and Belarus.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• The crisis has sent growing numbers of refugees across Sudan’s borders.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
• Attacks against civilians in Mali have surged since the group’s arrival, as have the number of Malian refugees in neighboring countries.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Similar scenes play out nightly across the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, which has transformed over the past month into an undeclared war zone.
  — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• One was volunteering while living in a refugee camp in Europe.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• All of Sudan's neighbors have their own conflicts and economic problems and the influx of Sudanese refugees adds to the burden.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 18 June 2023
• The film centers on struggling pub The Old Oak, where tensions mount following the sudden arrival of Syrian refugees who have been housed in the area.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
• Jason Wu, a Bay Area psychologist and child of refugee parents, said the first step is building awareness.
  — Rachel Zimmerman, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023
• The family found themselves in a refugee camp—a former concentration camp—for two years.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
• Among other things, Abaza spent weeks in Greece in 2016, serving as an interpreter at a Syrian refugee camp.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• For Hanna, these women also serve as exemplars of the grit and determination of refugees around the world.
  — Andrew Leon Hanna, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024