How to Use emigrant in a Sentence

emigrant

noun
  • Millions of European emigrants came to America in the 19th century.
  • But for the most part, these great waves of people were called emigrants, or migrants.
    — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
  • But where exactly does resemblance lie for me, an emigrant who never went back to her birthplace?
    — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The intention is for emigrants from rural areas to the cities to be able to funnel money to their hometowns.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • This hasn’t stopped Iranian emigrants from speaking out.
    — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 13 Mar. 2026
  • She is considered an emigrant and must obtain a special permit to visit the island.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 14 May 2018
  • Travelers can follow the route that took as many as half a million emigrants west in the mid-1800s.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The city has yet to inventory damage to grave markers, many of which mark the resting place of some of the state’s earliest emigrant settlers.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The share of emigrants from ages 20 to 24 has doubled during Orbán’s time in office.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Today, a massive new wave of emigrants is fleeing to Europe from Syria and Iraq.
    — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2016
  • Such a policy would require a thorough disclosure of each emigrant’s background and assets, which would be made public.
    — Alex Garcia, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Brathwaite conjures up a series of emigrants, waiting to leave their islands for countries that, ironically, do not want them.
    — Gabrielle Bellot, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Nielsen did concede that Trump had nice things to say about Norway and its prospective emigrants to the United States.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The high cost of housing is now a barrier to inward investment, to emigrants returning with skills, to people hoping to start families and who want to move.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • In the decades that followed, missionaries, emigrants, soldiers – and even Pony Express riders – made their way across the area.
    — Chris Mueller, Des Moines Register, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Why are so many Irish emigrants willing to travel, some over 9,000 miles, and incur a huge personal expense just to vote yes?
    — Chloe Mac Donnell, Glamour, 24 May 2018
  • This waltz type of music was pioneered by the non-black Acadian emigrants from Nova Scotia.
    — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2017
  • His father was a seasonal emigrant who worked in mines in Northern Europe and Argentina.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Negar Djavadi is, with her story of a family of Iranian emigrants to Paris.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • Law, who departed for a still-undisclosed location, was perhaps Hong Kong's first public emigrant of the security law era.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 3 July 2020
  • Does that make the pain a French emigrant feels at an underbaked croissant any less acute than the pain of an Englishman in New York faced with a lukewarm cup of tea?
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Many families have loved ones who live abroad, with Los Angeles popular among Iranian emigrants.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2018
  • Droves of emigrants returned home to cast ballots, and those who couldn’t appealed to voters back home with the hashtag #BeMyYes on Twitter.
    — Jennifer Duggan, Marie Claire, 15 May 2018
  • The museum is highly interactive, with videos and on-screen reenactors telling the story of Irish emigrants, both famous and infamous.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 1 June 2023
  • The series will be set in 1820s’ Boston, a time when the population of the city was mainly composed of emigrants from all walks of life and backgrounds.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • It’s told by 10 people affected by the disaster, such as a drug trafficker, an emigrant musician and an old woman selling produce in a market.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
  • My wife, the daughter of Italian emigrants, grew up in Geneva and attended the French-speaking compulsory schools.
    — WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • The elder Cruz is a Cuban emigrant who relocated to the United States in the 1950s.
    — Matt Ford, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The website notes that the park has its own trove of Oregon Trail history, like Register Rock, a popular spot for emigrants to etch their names in stone.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Many of these emigrants came to the United States, with a particularly high number settling in the Washington region.
    — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2017

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