How to Use emigrate in a Sentence

emigrate

verb

• Thousands would emigrate, but most would not be able to leave.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• One young man asked why so many young Russians want to emigrate.
  — David Filipov, Washington Post, 15 June 2017
• His involvement in that effort forced him to emigrate for fear for his life.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2017
• Eight chiefs voted to emigrate.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• 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
• More than a quarter would like to emigrate, according to Gallup, a polling firm.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• Many Guatemalans cite fears of extortion and crime as reasons to emigrate.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• That is the cry of those who grew up watching most of their peers emigrate, hoping to turn the tide for their country's future.
  — Alessia Arcolaci, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
• 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
• That’s why so many people emigrated.
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 8 June 2026
• Thirty-five million people cannot just emigrate.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
• This is home to the Zuckers who cross a red line debating whether to emigrate to Brazil.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021
• 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
• And there is Andy Xu, who emigrated to Canada eight years ago.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2019
• Researching those who chose to fight for the British and emigrate to Trinidad in order to be free.
  — The Root, 2 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• Many of its skilled employees have emigrated.
  — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
• Thousands have emigrated to seek a better life elsewhere.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Some of his forebears emigrated before the genocide; others barely got out.
  — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
• Her dad had emigrated from Argentina and worked as an accountant.
  — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
• The 23-year-old had emigrated from Ukraine with her mother, sister, and brother.
  — Dan Gooding shane Croucher jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
• Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a heart surgeon who emigrated from Turkey.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
• 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
• His father emigrated from Nicaragua.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
• That's the case for 34 year-old Esho, who emigrated from Iraq to Michigan as a kid.
  — Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 16 June 2026
• 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
• Raman emigrated from India to the United States as a child.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
• Born in Seoul in 1936, Ufan emigrated to Japan at the age of twenty.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 26 Nov. 2025