How to Use migrant in a Sentence

migrant

noun
  • Not all birds are migrants.
  • There is a war on our migrants.
    — Amanda Hari, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The migrants in the boat waved.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Leo could do that for migrants.
    — Paul Elie, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • But why, if most of the migrants had left?
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The Church stands with migrants.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • There, migrants are housed in chain-link cells inside tents.
    — Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The migrants who rape and/or murder make up a minute part of that group.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • These days, most migrants don’t make it to Poland on their first try.
    — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • His goal is to give migrants enough time to either hide or flee if agents are around.
    — Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • No one knows how many migrants are trapped in Belarus.
    — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The death of migrants in the desert has been ongoing for decades.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Some of the migrants who arrive are now headed south.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Others used the money made from migrants to buy cars.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Many of the migrants have turned to peddling as a way to survive.
    — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • Europe looks set to clamp down on migrants even further.
    — Jonathan Portes, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Many migrants were left to sleep for weeks with just a blanket and no showers.
    — ABC News, 10 June 2026
  • The cement slabs where migrants charged phones and ate meals were empty.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But the group does publish maps showing where migrants have died in the desert.
    — Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Still, tens of thousands of migrants remain in the city’s care.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • So were the makeshift rooms and bathrooms where migrants slept and showered.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The deals have raised questions about respect for the migrants’ rights.
    — ABC News, 20 May 2026
  • In the clip, migrants are seen climbing a loose rope hanging over the side of the ship.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • One migrant was punched in the head so hard he was knocked unconscious, and his brain swelled.
    — Kathleen Bergin, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2021
  • They weren’t built to hold people even overnight, though some migrants have been locked up for weeks at a time.
    — Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The Coast Guard did not say where the migrants were headed.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The office did not say if the migrant attempted to use the weapon.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • How many migrants are crossing the border?
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But these migrants were no longer en route to America.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025

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