How to Use expatriate in a Sentence

expatriate

1 of 3 verb
  • And some plan to expatriate to a nation with a friendlier tax code.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Maybe some of them will try to move, expatriate, or do an inversion.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • Gifts must be made long enough in advance that there is no appearance of a plan to gift and then expatriate, but a recent law might have made this more appealing.
    — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Dubai boasts a variety of bars, nightclubs and lounges that attract many visitors and well-to-do expatriate residents.
    — Mariam Fam, ajc, 20 Nov. 2022
  • These men had not fallen in love with the Caribbean island on a beach vacation or expatriated there for a simpler life.
    — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Plus, several Manhattan chefs have expatriated to the town, so, yum.
    — Devin Alessio, ELLE Decor, 16 Sep. 2016
  • This would be particularly true of a state-level wealth tax, since expatriating from one’s country is far more difficult than moving across state lines.
    — Jared Walczak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Qatar is renewing efforts to make real estate more attractive to expatriate residents, foreign investors and real estate funds.
    — Simone Foxman, Bloomberg.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The protection of students’ ability to express themselves freely should extend to expatriate communities.
    — H. R. McMaster, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
  • An August survey by Remitly found that having a better quality of life is the top reason Americans want to expatriate.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Some may benefit from expatriating at the start of a year to simplify tax reporting, while others might prefer year-end expatriation to maximize deductions or credits.
    — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Both sectors were intensive and extensive, monoculture producers of cash commodities for export, with the profits expatriated to outside owners.
    — Wade Graham, Smithsonian, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Right to Expatriate Ver’s legal team also argues that the exit tax is an unconstitutional burden on the fundamental right to expatriate.
    — Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Some white religious groups believed these individuals could never be truly free in a segregated society, prompting them to support a movement for expatriating free Black people.
    — Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • However, the Iran conflict poses a longer-term threat to Dubai’s appeal to expatriate workers and firms looking to establish operations in the region which could deflate the real estate market.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • The building still housed a small but interesting collection of maps, rare books, and historical newspapers from Tangier, as well as a collection of art by some of the city’s famous Moroccan and expatriate artist residents.
    — Graham Cornwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2021

expatriate

2 of 3 adjective
  • Dubai has always embraced expatriate workers from around the world.
    — Ellen Paris, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • There was a gathering at the home of the expatriate couple who had introduced me to the author.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The venues for the event are being built by mainly expatriate workers from South Asia and elsewhere.
    — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
  • As expatriate North Carolinians have told me, no place in the country has better and longer springs.
    — Twin Cities, 13 May 2017
  • By the end of 2015, all but one of the expatriate workers on the ship had evacuated.
    — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Hong Kong doesn’t allow it, but does permit gay expatriate workers to bring their spouses in on dependent visas.
    — Yongchang Chin, Bloomberg.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Paris is home to a large expatriate population, many of them Americans.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2020
  • These schools tended to be staffed by nationals from the expatriate country of origin and to teach a curriculum that was based on the one found in the home country.
    — Newsweek Educational Insight, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Qatar’s population is about 3million, but expatriate workers count for around 90 per cent.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • At least for this expatriate Brit, those concerns haven’t lessened since June 2016.
    — WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
  • What is clear is that Matthiessen’s socializing with left-leaning French and expatriate artists served the deep state’s agenda.
    — Maggie Doherty, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There are likely more expatriate Chinese in Africa than there are expatriate whites.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2010
  • Because the project is so crucial to Chevron’s future, the company has assembled a team of expatriate stalwarts to push it over the line.
    — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • In his spare time, Patrick started a slo-pitch softball team at his local pub with the help of another expatriate American.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Coates even moved for a time to France, as Baldwin did, and Coates’s expatriate distance only sharpened his view of the goings-on at home.
    — Kevin Young, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • His post oversees seven Western states and one of the largest Israeli expatriate populations in the world.
    — Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 4 May 2026
  • The controversial moment came after a lengthy speech by the president to a crowd of expatriate Filipinos in Seoul.
    — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 4 June 2018
  • Expatriate workers can often be seen performing tasks that locals would undertake elsewhere in Africa.
    — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 24 June 2017
  • To help, recreation facilities are laid on in the separate village where the mainly expatriate employees live.
    — Barry Neild, CNN, 29 May 2017
  • Brooke devised the novel during her tenure as the expatriate wife of a chaplain stationed at a British garrison in Quebec.
    — JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The city of San Miguel Allende sucks all the air out of the room when the conversation turns to expatriate life in Mexico.
    — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2018
  • For years, his mother and her expatriate friends had been helping people in Venezuela, and then last year began sending small amounts of medical supplies through suitcases.
    — David Medina, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • His family was living the expatriate life in Paris, traveling home to Brazil during vacations.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Germany, the Netherlands and Austria are some of the countries that host the largest Turkish expatriate population in the world.
    — Ayca Arkilic, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
  • This is a team assembled from immigration, diaspora, and expatriate ambition, coached by an outsider who can see what insiders missed.
    — Michael Morris, Time, 1 July 2026
  • Pondering her future, Zhang was both curious about and daunted by the examples of Hao and other expatriate writers.
    — Han Zhang, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • She was educated at a convent, and then sent to live with a cluster of aunts living in Bangkok’s expatriate Indian community.
    — Jillian Dunham, Longreads, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Some locals in Bali said bitcoin was being used mainly by foreigners on the island, which is Indonesia’s tourism hub and has a large expatriate community.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2018
  • In the cities, expatriate compounds where many foreigners live have allowed women to drive, safe in the knowledge that the Saudi police, or worse still the religious police, are not allowed inside the gates.
    — Simon Henderson, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2017
  • At a 2018 news conference about the case, authorities said McLeod might be in expatriate communities on the coast, and was known to go to nightclubs.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021

expatriate

3 of 3 noun
  • The social-media ban cut off many of these expatriates from their families.
    — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The expatriate has mixed feelings about the World Cup and his homeland’s team.
    — Pat Maio, Daily News, 7 June 2026
  • And the show is also a show that's very much about being an expatriate in Paris and working and having jobs.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Monroe plays Julie, a young expatriate who is sure a neighbor is watching her through his window.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2022
  • For this expatriate, who has seldom been accused of chauvinism, the answer would be no.
    — WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
  • In places such as Dubai, millions of expatriates have put down roots and appear more inclined to wait out the conflict.
    — Dina Esfandiary, Time, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Determining if the tax is imposed depends on what type of expatriate the giver is.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • What were her feelings about being an expatriate in the years after the Civil War?
    — Tyehimba Jess, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The open eateries were sparsely filled and had attracted a mix of Saudis and expatriates.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • To clarify, an expatriate is someone who moves to another country and pays taxes there (and no longer pays taxes at home).
    — Lilly Graves, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The second has an art gallery with rotating exhibits, curated by a French expatriate.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Bequests may align with the expatriate's death year for potentially later deadlines.
    — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Some of those caucuses are even taking place for Iowans out of state and for Hawkeye State expatriates in cities around the world.
    — Tim Darnell, ajc, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Back in Mexico City, officials were struggling to figure out how to keep up with the expatriate death toll.
    — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2021
  • What’s a challenge and a reward about living as an expatriate in Amsterdam?
    — Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
  • The store, which is popular with tourists and resident expatriates as well as locals, looks much like any other supermarket at first glance.
    — NBC News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The mood in Feltre—among Italians and expatriates alike—was that of indignation.
    — Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Many expatriate workers have left the city for Singapore, which started its reopening in the spring and stuck with it even as case counts rebounded.
    — Kari Lindberg, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Many Lebanese expatriates who typically flock to Lebanon at this time of year are now reluctant because of the unrest.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The following day was a big travel day for the tens of thousands of expatriates who’d returned to Lebanon for the holidays and were heading back to their lives abroad.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • On a planet on the move, whether you’re slotted as a refugee, migrant, expatriate, or tourist, can mean, literally, the difference between life and death.
    — Suketu Mehta, Time, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Chaoyang is home to one of Beijing’s key central business districts, most foreign embassies and a lot of its expatriate community.
    — Bloomberg News, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
  • The Major, an expatriate, returns to Mingheria as the Princess’s bodyguard.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Corcoran designs greeting cards, prints and notepads in a style that is nostalgic for expatriates, said Crawford, whose mother is an expat.
    — Mars King, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Some parents are concerned that tuition fees for international schools in Kenya could rise further with the arrival of more expatriates in the country.
    — Martin K.n Siele, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Partly due to its status as a global financial hub, Hong Kong is a major destination for expatriates from across the world.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 5 Aug. 2019
  • By the time Russia crossed into Ukraine, expatriate workers and their families had already left, the company said.
    — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
  • That morning, the baby’s godfather, an expatriate writer, had caused a stir in the church, since none of the villagers, most of them farmers, had ever seen a Black man in person.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • In Gringos, an expatriate in Mexico with a taste for order finds himself amid hippies, end-of-the-world cultists and disappearing friends.
    — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • War-weary South Sudan — one of the world’s poorest countries — is ill-equipped to absorb Sudanese refugees or returning expatriates.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023

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