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.
• 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
• Apple is bringing the tales of immigrants to the screen.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• In the Bay Area, turning our backs on immigrants hurts us all.
  — Peter Leroe-Munoz, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 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
• Ghosh is an immigrant from India and the daughter of refugees.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
• 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
• What was life like for him as a young immigrant with two children?
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
• Like about a third of nursing aides, Salma is an immigrant.
  — Tara Sklar, The Conversation, 23 Nov. 2020
• The crowd laughs and cheers as speakers rail against immigrants, politicians and the media.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• 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
• And a lot of immigrants are going to see themselves in this story.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
• My job: defending the rights of immigrants and refugees.
  — Health.com, 26 June 2018
• Hundreds, if not thousands, of Irish immigrants, free blacks, and convicts lost their lives in the process.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 5 Oct. 2017
• To the sisters, the treatment of immigrants is a moral issue, not specific to any faith.
  — Marie Fazio, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2019
• 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
• Health care already relies on immigrants to fill the ranks.
  — Carmen Heredia Rodriguez and Ana B. Ibarra, Kaiser Health News, 18 Sep. 2017
• In 2021 someone set fire to a Guatemalan immigrant’s sleeping bag, leading to the man’s death from burn injuries.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• These protests ultimately paled in the face of the thousands of Mainers who came out to support the African immigrants.
  — Jocelyn Ruggiero, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• That’s when Sanchez, also the daughter of an immigrant, hit her limit.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2018
• The owner is an immigrant who opens early and closes late.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Oct. 2020
• Freud, born in 1957, is the child of immigrants from Hungary who met in England; his mother was an Auschwitz survivor.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• My grandmother, a Black Cuban immigrant in the 60s, went from not speaking the language to being Ph.D.-educated.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
• My great grandfather was an immigrant who worked in the sewers.
  — Concetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2022
• Good jobs and affordable housing drew immigrants from around the world.
  — Jason Grotto, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2019
• Even immigrants who do not commit a crime can face problems.
  — Ting-Chia Kan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• 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
• It's located on what used to be the city's largest port, and immigrants used found materials to build their homes here.
  — Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024