How to Use immigrate in a Sentence

immigrate

verb
  • Those who want to immigrate there need to explore what are the best options for them.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • In time, Chagossians found ways to immigrate to Britain.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • My family risked everything and worked for years to even get the chance to immigrate.
    Kristin Wong, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Amnesty would send the wrong message to millions of people trying to immigrate the right way.
    Bill Wong, National Review, 30 Sep. 2021
  • What if, centuries ago, one of your ancestors chose not to immigrate to a new country?
    Nuno Fernandes, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Some of them immigrated to the United States, but many did not.
    Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Suarez immigrated from Venezuela and has lived in New York for a decade.
    Ali Bauman, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Newsweek was unable to contact the investors who had immigrated via that route.
    Didi Kirsten Tatlow, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The couple immigrated from Thailand long ago and worked hard to save that money over three decades.
    Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The husband and wife each immigrated to Waterbury at a young age.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Close to a third of residents immigrated from Asia.
    Sara Chernikoff, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Close to a third of residents immigrated from Asia.
    Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 14 May 2026
  • His mom, who immigrated from Cuba, sang in high school and through college but didn’t make a career out of it.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
  • The reasons for immigrating to the United States haven’t changed much since.
    Philip Bump, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2018
  • And the path to a better life — which is often the reason why people immigrate in the first place — becomes that much harder to walk.
    Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT, 16 Aug. 2021
  • She was born and raised in Delano to parents who immigrated from India.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The metro area has many people immigrating to the area, numerous from foreign countries.
    Zuri Primos july 11, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2026
  • Eman immigrated to the United States and moved to Grand Rapids.
    USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Around the same time, Jared’s family immigrated from South Africa to that very town.
    Peter White, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Those trips to the city were filled with visits to relatives, many of whom my grandparents had helped immigrate to New York.
    Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
  • His father immigrated to the United States from the Philippines in his late teens.
    The Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Chao was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States as a child with her family.
    Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2018
  • But his baseball dreams were derailed when his dad temporarily left him behind to immigrate to New York.
    Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Saul was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States in his early teens.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 6 Apr. 2026
  • His mother, who had immigrated legally to Chicago, got him out of the shelter and brought him back to her home to live with her, his attorney said.
    Lauren Victory, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • On social media, some are critical of her choice to immigrate without papers back in 2011.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The family immigrated from Egypt and applied for asylum after their visas expired.
    Christa Swanson, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The Atalele family has been in Gondar for the past 16 years, waiting to immigrate to Israel.
    Eliana Rudee, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2022
  • There was a time when people would immigrate to this country and work hard to learn English and assimilate into society.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Since then, Israel has allowed around 2,000 of the Ethiopians to immigrate.
    Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020

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