How to Use repatriate in a Sentence

repatriate

verb

• Countries are required to repatriate prisoners of war when conflict has ended.
• And some of his peers who moved away would like to repatriate but are shut out of the market.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• After the war, the U.S. launched a worldwide effort to repatriate the dead.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2021
• Some refugees forcibly repatriated to the regime state have lived in the country for decades.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2023
• She was questioned by the F.B.I. and asked to be repatriated.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 11 June 2019
• Both groups have clamored for the boys’ home countries to repatriate them.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• Rohingya who have been repatriated in the past have been forced to live in camps in Myanmar.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• McGee and Williams were repatriated to the United States.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
• This isn’t the first time the museum has repatriated art linked to Latchford.
  — Maysoon Khan, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• That process could inform future work to repatriate the 51.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 8 July 2021
• The bodies of the two Americans killed were repatriated to the U.S. on Thursday.
  — Anne Laurent, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
• His lawyers have managed to frustrate efforts to repatriate most of the funds frozen in his British bank accounts.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Earlier this year Germany pledged to repatriate more than 1,000 of them in the coming years.
  — Chinedu Asadu, ajc, 20 Dec. 2022
• The Smithsonian is not the first museum to repatriate art to Benin.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2022
• The flights were mostly used to help repatriate Canadians stuck over the border.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2020
• The Senegalese were in contact with the U.N. to evacuate the wounded soldier and repatriate the bodies.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• The end goal: To repatriate the land to the Duwamish, its original inhabitants.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 20 Dec. 2021
• But, because of the disease, the man's family was not able to repatriate his body and bury him in Oaxaca.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
• Hundreds of remains have been repatriated since 1990, but the process has been fraught with mistrust.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• Three of the heads, known as toi moko, were repatriated from the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 14 June 2023
• Originally from what is now Iraq, the next step will be to repatriate it to that country, experts say.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2021
• Four out of five died in North Korea, while Jenkins was repatriated in 2004.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
• The bodies were repatriated to neighboring countries or buried in the Free State.
  — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Plans are underway to bring in forensics experts to identify and repatriate the remains of the children found buried on the site.
  — Rob Gillies, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2021
• And this week, nearly four decades after it had been stolen, the watch was repatriated at his family home.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 June 2024
• For years, the State Department has urged countries to repatriate their citizens, as the United States did.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2022
• Take, for example, the long-standing fight to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
• The journey home was even extended by two weeks, as the ship stopped off at various ports to repatriate crew members.
  — NBC News, 9 June 2020
• Biden focused on repatriating people at the border, rather than deporting people who have been living in the U.S. for decades.
  — Maria Ramirez Uribe, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Nov. 2024
• In that film, a young man who emigrated from Dakar to Europe who’s just been violently repatriated by Spain tells his two best friends, including my cousin, the story of his journey across the sea.
  — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025