How to Use repatriation in a Sentence

repatriation

noun

• Tourists spent the night on the airport floor, waiting for repatriation flights.
  — Fedja Grulovic, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
• Many of the tourists are British, and Jet2 was among the U.K. airlines organizing repatriation flights to get them home.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• The South African diamonds that will sit in the crown instead are also the subject of calls for repatriation.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• There are costs associated with repatriation, of course, for the tribes as well as the state.
  — John O’Connor and Melissa Perez Winder, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
• More than 1,000 Iraqis, mostly Kurds, have since left the region on repatriation flights.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• But even if change comes, repatriation will take time, likely years.
  — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2023
• Since the chance encounter, over two decades back, the Nso people have been calling for repatriation of their looted asset, but to no avail.
  — Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz, 8 July 2022
• This can reduce the overall cost of cloud repatriation.
  — Marcin Zgola, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Alex Potter is in Ukraine now, trying to arrange the repatriation of her husband’s body.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• Such painstaking puzzle work paves the way for the repatriation of Russian soldiers to their homeland.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2024
• Some museums in the state are also doing a good job of repatriation.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 June 2023
• In the final part of that chapter, Michalik tells about the repatriation in 2001 of some of the poles and other objects by members of the Harriman Retraced team.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021
• Bean and Hughes said that the repatriation serves as a step toward healing and rebuilding the parts of their culture that were taken.
  — Clarise Larson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
• In both cases, the museum supported the repatriation of the brains.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• The United Kingdom agreed to sit down and talk about the possible repatriation of the skull and related fossils back to Zambia.
  — Michael Balter, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2019
• The repatriation began on July 20 when staff at the Lexington removed the flag from its frame in a ceremony in the ship’s hangar bay.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• The Smithsonian, which has one of the largest collections of human remains in the world, is governed by a 1989 repatriation law.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• The Italian government has a repatriation agreement with Tunisia and is determined to slow the pace of arrivals.
  — Frank Miles, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2020
• At the request of the tribes, the museum is keeping the box for any future repatriation of other animals, Gusick said. P-22’s body was buried in a shroud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• The museum said the wall text is being adjusted to note the objects’ repatriation.
  — Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• But the Justice Department disagreed, and told the court in a filing that the mandatory repatriation tax is an income tax.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2023
• The city’s leader, Carrie Lam, said last week that the group must first face justice on the mainland before the Hong Kong government assists in their repatriation.
  — New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
• Isolated from the outside world with no hope of repatriation, Jenkins found a certain rhythm to his defeat.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• The move is the latest instance in a wave of repatriation efforts from prominent institutions around the world.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
• The new rule requires that those items not be displayed without tribal permission or if within the process of repatriation.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Uzbekistan wants to move beyond Gulnara, even without full repatriation of the frozen accounts beyond what the Swiss agreed to already in August.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• The British dealer and a colleague agreed to surrender the relief without admitting guilt, and in 2018, a New York judge ordered its repatriation.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• Stakeholders in Mexico told CNN last week that there had not appeared to be any significant change in the pace of repatriation flights in the country’s north.
  — David Shortell, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• The political climate is volatile with the rise of the National Front calling for the repatriation of immigrants and appealing to racial hatred.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2024
• The two countries agreed to step up their cooperation on repatriation, with the introduction of measures such as the use of biometric data to identify those who are required to leave Germany.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 14 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024