How to Use immigrant in a Sentence

immigrant

noun

• The city has a large immigrant population.
• Millions of immigrants came to America from Europe in the 19th century.
• Apple is bringing the tales of immigrants to the screen.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• More than half of the seventh- and eighth-graders in the club are refugees, and almost all are immigrants.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• What was life like for him as a young immigrant with two children?
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
• And a lot of immigrants are going to see themselves in this story.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
• Ghosh is an immigrant from India and the daughter of refugees.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
• The crowd laughs and cheers as speakers rail against immigrants, politicians and the media.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• Italy has one of the world’s lowest birth rates, and few countries are in greater need of immigrants.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• My job: defending the rights of immigrants and refugees.
  — Health.com, 26 June 2018
• Health care already relies on immigrants to fill the ranks.
  — Carmen Heredia Rodriguez and Ana B. Ibarra, Kaiser Health News, 18 Sep. 2017
• Like about a third of nursing aides, Salma is an immigrant.
  — Tara Sklar, The Conversation, 23 Nov. 2020
• The owner is an immigrant who opens early and closes late.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Oct. 2020
• In the Bay Area, turning our backs on immigrants hurts us all.
  — Peter Leroe-Munoz, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2019
• My great grandfather was an immigrant who worked in the sewers.
  — Concetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2022
• Even immigrants who do not commit a crime can face problems.
  — Ting-Chia Kan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Good jobs and affordable housing drew immigrants from around the world.
  — Jason Grotto, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2019
• This approach is new to the country, and also new to me—the daughter of a Guatemalan immigrant.
  — Eva Sandoval, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2021
• To the sisters, the treatment of immigrants is a moral issue, not specific to any faith.
  — Marie Fazio, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2019
• But part of that perspective is being the daughter of immigrants.
  — Ray Boyd, Philly.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant who’d risen from humble origins to one of the richest men in the world.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2020
• My mother, an immigrant, made the art of voting a central pride in her life and taught me to value this right.
  — Marie Claire, 16 Oct. 2018
• Rihanna should keep in mind that she was welcomed to this nation as an immigrant.
  — Shacamree Gowdy, Houston Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2020
• Mullen tells me that fellow students call him racist and accuse him of hating immigrants.
  — Cam Wolf, GQ, 22 Aug. 2017
• Of course, immigrants came here and realized that certainly wasn’t the case.
  — Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2017
• Some cited that Weiss herself is the daughter of immigrants.
  — Mari Uyehara, GQ, 19 Feb. 2018
• The notice comes amid a scramble by federal agencies to find space for immigrants.
  — CBS News, 22 June 2018
• But the big surge in fentanyl isn’t due to immigrants sneaking it over an unguarded border.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• An immigrant who carefully hoarded his wages could strike out on his own within a few years.
  — Miriam Davis, Smithsonian, 15 Feb. 2018
• If an immigrant receives two benefits in a single month, that would count as two months.
  — Yeganeh Torbati, ProPublica, 19 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 21 Apr 2024