How to Use asylum in a Sentence

asylum

noun

• She was granted asylum after it was made clear that she would be killed if she returned to her native country.
• She asked for political asylum.
• Ramirez also huddled the asylum seekers in the front of the church to pray.
  — The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2023
• In the past, many migrants would hope to get to the United States and claim asylum.
  — Haley Yamada, ABC News, 17 June 2022
• That would be a disaster, akin to putting the inmates in charge of the asylum.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• On Monday, the Marechaussee said the man had applied for asylum.
  — NBC News, 24 Jan. 2022
• Once that is done, then the feds can manage the asylum seekers, foot the bill and assist our cities.
  — WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• The man, an asylum seeker, still had an open case before the court.
  — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2025
• Shayevich left Azerbaijan in the Nineties to seek asylum in the United States.
  — Bela Shayevich, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• And from outside the walls of the asylum, a movement grows to free them from confinement.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024
• In some areas of the city, asylum-seekers and migrants sleep rough in makeshift camps.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2022
• The arrivals first show that they are allowed to be in the US, while claims for asylum are processed, and then the help begins.
  — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
• Ceja, at the time of her death, had formal asylum in the U.S. and was awaiting a hearing on the matter.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2022
• The pair later skipped bail and were granted asylum in Germany in May 2018.
  — NBC News, 20 Jan. 2022
• In the past week alone, more than 2,700 asylum seekers arrived in the city, officials said.
  — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Her group works with refugees in the coastal town of Dover, the landing spot for many of the small boats that carry asylum seekers across the Channel to Britain.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
• Refugees, asylum seekers and migrants end up singled out for attack — but in the end, all of us reap the harm.
  — Nicholas Dimarzio, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025
• The family arrived on a tourist visa in 2002, found a lawyer and applied for asylum.
  — Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 7 June 2025
• The proposal would impact a small group of asylum seekers, the sources said.
  — Molly Nagle, ABC News, 9 May 2024
• Those made to leave the U.S. face gangs and a Mexican asylum system where cases linger for years.
  — Maria Abi-Habib, New York Times, 12 May 2023
• New York will spend $25 million in state funds to rent homes for thousands of asylum seekers.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• At the same time, the asylum seeker costs aren’t the only financial issues the city is facing.
  — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• Claim: The plan will ‘stop the boats’ by deterring asylum seekers from heading for Britain.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• The windows were smashed and the asylum seekers were appearing at the windows.
  — Amanda Lewellyn, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
• Today a look at Venezuelan asylum seekers and their tough journey to the US.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
• Court pushes new asylum seekers to front of the line — and creates new challenges.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• This might sound like old news, but these asylum-seekers are getting through the border.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• The asylum system, by intent and design, does not gel with this approach at all.
  — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
• In May, Emily and their son traveled to Orlando for their initial asylum hearing.
  — Allison McCann, New York Times, 11 June 2025
• Still, seizing people who have agreed to appear at ordered court or asylum hearings seems patently unfair.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025