How to Use deportation in a Sentence

deportation

noun
  • That means mass deportations could lead to price hikes in the fruit aisle.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • If the court agrees, that could well lead to mass deportations.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 9 June 2026
  • Chandee's deportation was put on hold for two weeks.
    — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • Jews in the jail faced deportation and death.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • And please take this down and please keep me out of your ‘banger’ deportation videos.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
  • And please take this down and please keep me out of your ‘banger’ deportation videos.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • And please take this down and please keep me out of your ‘banger’ deportation videos.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Such a move would fast-track their deportation and limit due process.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The mass murder, the mass rape, the mass deportation, and so on?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Khalil is out on bail, fighting his own deportation case.
    — Jake Offenhartz The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The pace of deportation flights – while rising – hasn't quite kept up.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
  • My deportation was wrong, and my family should not have to be torn apart.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • And there was one moment where the crowd pulled out signs saying mass deportation now.
    — Ava Pukatch, NPR, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But the first Rwanda deportation flight did not take off as planned.
    — Tazreena Sajjad, The Conversation, 28 July 2022
  • And yet, hundreds of migrants say they were told to stay put in them, or risk deportation.
    — Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 24 June 2024
  • The impact of mass deportations could be dire.
    — Brian Unger, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Who steal, want to get everything for free, be afraid of deportation?
    — NBC News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Who steal, want to get everything for free, be afraid of deportation?
    — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Who steal, want to get everything for free, be afraid of deportation?
    — Sana Noor Haq and Katharina Krebs, CNN, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Not all are deportation flights.
    — Martha Bellisle, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The status will shield them from deportation for the next 18 months.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Still, fear of deportation outweighs the fear of bullets for many.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The deportation process broke him.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Failing to do so would mean that what should be a happy milestone could lead to deportation.
    — NBC News, 1 July 2021
  • Democrats have tended to downplay deportation issues when one of them is in charge.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • He was found guilty of six counts of immigration fraud, and at risk of deportation.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Her ninth deportation, in 2009, would be her last.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Some had served prison sentences and had final orders of deportations for years.
    — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Some had served prison sentences and had final orders of deportations for years.
    — Syra Ortiz-Blanes, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
  • He was let go later that spring as the deportation process continued.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026

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