How to Use émigré in a Sentence

émigré

noun
  • He was one of a group of Soviet émigrés living in New York.
  • Most were emigres from Texas who brought their politics to El Monte.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Most Russian emigres in London live a world apart from such intrigue.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Shops that cater to the city's large community of Russian emigres line the streets near the consulate.
    — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Subtler tactics were used to lure back various homesick emigre artists and writers.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • These things are posed on simple backgrounds, their only context the gray-haired emigres in adjacent photos.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Could these French rural emigres be the leading edge of a massive population shift back to the countryside?
    — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2017
  • An elderly blind woman fears losing her sister to a charming Russian emigre on the Maine coast.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Her father, 93-year-old Cuban emigre Carlos Canal, wasn’t feeling well, the nurse told Schwartz.
    — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
  • His Caffe Roma buddy and fellow emigre Arnold Schwarzenegger inspired him.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
  • An emigre from the former Soviet Union by that same name is the co-founder of a large Canadian bakery chain called Fiera Foods.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The August grisly murder of Ukrainian emigre Iryna Zarutska seemed to capture the media for a day.
    — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
  • David was born one of nine children to a French emigre family that settled in the farming area along the Connecticut-Rhode Island border.
    — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Another 30 percent are Bay Area emigres wanting to flee exorbitant housing costs.
    — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 21 May 2018
  • Cleveland, the letter noted, had been seen as a friend by English emigres but seemed unusually hostile recently in a fisheries dispute with Canada.
    — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
  • For more than a decade, London has seen the ceaseless arrival of wealthy Russian emigres, including oligarchs fleeing the Kremlin and those still in Putin's good graces.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
  • After two devastating quakes, first responders were fishermen, doctors and emigres returning from abroad — a grassroots campaign filling a government void.
    — Helena Carpio, Washington Post, 30 June 2026
  • Critics have called the mural, painted by Russian emigre Victor Arnautoff, racist and offensive toward people of color.
    — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Other emigres were of the same generation and background, like Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who created the orchestra soundtrack at the dawn of talkies.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • That effort was energized by José Gomez Sicré, a Cuban emigre who in the late 1940s started assembling a collection of works by artists from member countries.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • Indeed, as Britain and its grandiose capital have become a home for many Russian emigres, an alarming number of Kremlin critics residing in the country have died in mysterious circumstances.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The new prosperity, often funded with capital from Cuban emigres overseas, prompted resentment and complaints from the hundreds of thousands of Cubans who still live on state salaries averaging $30 a month.
    — Andrea Rodriguez, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
  • Meyer, an emigre from the Netherlands, had already explored extensively in northern and central China when Fairchild tapped him, in 1916, to go to southern China.
    — Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Hardest hit by redevelopment are residents like Michael Ziebel, 88, a Russian emigre whose life parallels a generation on South Beach.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The group waged a guerilla war against the Soviet Union into the 1950s, and UPA emigres played a key role in reviving Ukraine’s nationalist movement during perestroika.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026
  • Over the summer, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington CEO Gil Preuss accompanied a group of over 100 such emigres from Paris to Israel.
    — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The documentary Revolution’s Daughter, which held its world premiere Friday night at the Miami Film Festival, explores the experience of Fernández Revuelta and other emigres who left Cuba behind physically but not emotionally.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2026

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