How to Use emigrate in a Sentence

emigrate

verb
Definition of emigratenext
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  • The boat was stuck in the mud when Singh, who emigrated from England, bought the store two decades ago.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
  • This is home to the Zuckers who cross a red line debating whether to emigrate to Brazil.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The opera was written in the late 1960s, when Jews were trying to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Thousands would emigrate, but most would not be able to leave.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The rise in hostility has led many to live in anger and fear or even to emigrate from the country.
    — NBC News, 28 Sep. 2020
  • My father, Willy Reich, was from Zurich and emigrated to the States in 1956.
    — Jimmy Camp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Hundreds of thousands have emigrated since the end of communism in the 1990s and the chaos that ensued.
    — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • After a week in the Motor City, Paul, who had emigrated from Sicily in 1961, returned to the site to take the train home.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
  • My dear niece and her husband are planning to emigrate to Israel in the next month, and their baby will be born there.
    — David A. Andelman, CNN, 14 May 2021
  • My partner’s parents, on the other hand, emigrated from the Philippines in the 1960s.
    — Samantha Vincenty, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2023
  • More than a quarter would like to emigrate, according to Gallup, a polling firm.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Now Cubans are required to travel to third countries to apply for a visa to visit or emigrate to the US.
    — Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 25 June 2021
  • There were not many Jews in these towns either, and the few who were there were stripped of their livelihoods and often compelled to emigrate.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Born in 1761, Tubbs emigrated to the United States during her teenage years.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2019
  • His parent emigrated to Canada in the 50s by Red Cross boat.
    — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Conscription-age Ukrainians who have emigrated abroad should be called on to come home and join the fight.
    — Jakub Grygiel, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
  • Many Guatemalans cite fears of extortion and crime as reasons to emigrate.
    — Simon Romero, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • The family wound up emigrating to the United States in 1949, when Thorn was still a toddler.
    — Frederic J. Frommer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • This song also makes the point that anyone, anywhere, could be forcibly displaced or feel the need to emigrate someday.
    — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2022
  • An Iranian Jew, her parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s.
    — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Amidst poverty and recent natural disasters -- and with a friendlier face these days in the White House -- the time had come to emigrate to the US.
    — Natalie Gallón, CNN, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Their two surviving sons, who emigrated to the United States years ago, have urged them to leave Ukraine.
    — Sergii Mukaieliants, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In Mexico, one in three people who emigrate to other states do so to find work.
    — Palabra, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2022
  • By 1989, the year the government put down the Tiananmen Square protests, Li’s family was making plans to emigrate.
    — Martin Wolk, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • He was born in London in 1969 to parents who had emigrated from India in search of a better life.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Before emigrating from the Philippines, Tamayo worked as a ship captain the Merchant Marines.
    — Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
  • My father emigrated to the US from India in 1971 and my mother joined him two years later.
    — S. Mitra Kalita, CNN, 11 Apr. 2020
  • His family is of Indian descent and emigrated to the U.K. from Kenya in the 1960s.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 2 July 2024
  • This stands in contrast to other countries in Europe, where emigrating Portuguese workers have, to this point, found better job prospects.
    — Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • After emigrating from Pakistan more than two decades ago, Aaron Bashir has built a career as an accountant and been involved in community activism.
    — Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024

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