How to Use diaspora in a Sentence

diaspora

noun
  • The African diaspora didn’t start and end in the South here.
    Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2020
  • At the Met, there is art from Egypt, art from Africa, art of the African diaspora.
    Washington Post, 27 May 2021
  • The Black diaspora having fun with the clothes and the fashion.
    Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The flag was meant to mobilize and unite all of the people of the African diaspora.
    Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2022
  • It’s the new urban funk, not just from the black diaspora.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2021
  • But the diaspora in the U.S. is still split down the middle in terms of support for Modi.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 21 June 2023
  • The course starts with the origins of the African diaspora and sweeps through the epochs of slavery, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • What did the children of the diaspora know about the mixture of local wild herbs called za’atar?
    Saki Knafo, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
  • For members of the Darpa diaspora, who have been in the trenches longer than most, much work still lies ahead.
    Dana Hull, Bloomberg.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Part of this is thanks to the ripple effect of the Filipino diaspora.
    Jasmine Ting, Bon Appétit, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The most vocal supporters of the cause are among the Sikh diaspora.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • There seems to be a lot more space within the diaspora there, much more than in Europe.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Out of the guilt and confusion of this moment, many in the diaspora are searching for ways to help.
    Prachi Gupta, The Atlantic, 1 May 2021
  • In an interview with Rolling Stone, the singer explained that the record is inspired by the sounds of the Black diaspora of then and now.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 31 May 2023
  • As a Black man born in the diaspora, our ground zero tends to be slavery.
    Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • In sheer numbers, this is the largest diaspora in the long history of our species.
    Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 17 July 2019
  • Over the past three years, the war’s tensions have also spilled over into the diaspora.
    Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2024
  • At the same time, M-Pesa wants to be the platform of choice for Africans in the diaspora, sending billions back home.
    Seth Onyango, Quartz, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Both broke new ground for female writers in the region and the diaspora.
    Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
  • Gul learned what Uyghurs in the diaspora were saying and doing.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 May 2021
  • Their songs had all the contradictions of the Irish diaspora — the yearning for the old sod vs. the desperate urge to break free.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Britons are by no means the only difficult part of the Bangladeshi diaspora.
    The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • But in some corners of the diaspora, strains are emerging.
    Damien Cave, New York Times, 18 July 2023
  • My stepfather, who raised me, lost his life and my mother was out in the diaspora.
    Annabelle Timsit, The Atlantic, 25 July 2017
  • It is commonly used in the cuisine of West Africa and its diaspora.
    Bon Appétit, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Stupak is part of an army of helpers that the Ukrainian diaspora has rallied.
    The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Most of his content comes from a hyper-niche awareness that comes with being a part of the wide-scale diaspora.
    Ana Escalante, Glamour, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Only about 2 percent of books on shelves are by authors in the African diaspora.
    Giulia Heyward and Brandon Griggs, CNN, 2 Nov. 2020
  • But Lebanon's far-flung diaspora, renowned as entrepreneurs who for years sent their cash home, may no longer be willing to do that.
    Zeina Karam, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2020
  • On the island and among its diaspora, news of her death drew mixed reactions.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2022

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