How to Use migrate in a Sentence

migrate

verb

• They followed the migrating herds of buffalo across the plains.
• Thousands of workers migrate to this area each summer.
• The whales migrate between their feeding ground in the north and their breeding ground in the Caribbean.
• He migrates from New York to Florida each winter.
• But when fall arrives, the boy must go to school, and the owl must migrate.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2023
• The eelgrass in the refuge is a magnet for migrating ducks and geese.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• And the chaos never really shuts off until the birds migrate south in the fall.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
• In response, the sea cows migrated to the park’s springs, which tend to be 72 degrees year-round.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• The night progresses, and their bodies migrate from the dance floor to a bedroom.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2023
• But as the oceans warm, the mollusks are migrating further north.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• Both East and Tern were packed with wildlife that migrated away in summer and fall.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Killed off in Colorado by the 1940s, some have since migrated here across state lines.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• One out of every three birds migrating through the U.S. in spring passes through Texas.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 10 May 2023
• The couple migrated to the West Bank years ago and planted grass, trees, herbs and flowers.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• This could happen if the City of Portland migrates oak species from places to the south, Tallamy noted.
  — Nathan Gilles, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• The agreement allows for up to 280 people a year to migrate from Tuvalu.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
• All the streets are dark, the houses identical, in the sky ragged clouds race, and huge flocks, wings creaking like oars, migrate to the safety of the mind.
  — D. Nurkse, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
• There's always a reason to look up in this Gulf Coast town as migrating bird paths cross over the island.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2023
• Coughlin said migrating birds and insects will also live in the green space.
  — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• This change seems to have been in the works for quite some time now, as Mint users across Reddit have seen prompts to migrate to Credit Karma over the past few weeks.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 2 Nov. 2023
• Also, keep your lights off from dusk until dawn to help birds migrating at night.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2023
• While the deadline to migrate isn’t until 2025, Google’s been prompting folks to make the switch since earlier this summer.
  — Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
• Millions of shorebirds migrate along the Atlantic coast, and many stop in spring, when horseshoe crabs spawn on mid-Atlantic beaches, to feed on the crabs’ eggs.
  — Kristoffer Whitney, Fortune Well, 13 Oct. 2023
• News has largely migrated from print to cable television and the Web.
  — Eric Foner, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
• Over the millennia, the Dravidians migrated to the southern part of the subcontinent, while the Aryans fanned out across the north.
  — Phillip M. Carter, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• The birds are migrating to the Arctic to breed and this loon, which previously showed up at the preserve, may have gotten blown off course, Buzard said.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
• Gujaratis have migrated again and again, to East Africa, the U.K., and everywhere in this country there’s a roadside motel.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2023
• Birds migrating from farther north may still be looking for food while on their journey.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2023
• The disease is estimated to be found in 10-15% of the mule deer near Cody that migrate to the southeastern section of Yellowstone in the summer.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
• Snow levels are forecast to migrate downwards as the week progresses, to 3,500 feet on Friday.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024