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.
• Many birds migrate at night using dark-sky cues.
  — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026
• With large bodies and short legs, gators cannot migrate over land.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• The games migrated from there to school grounds.
  — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
• But when fall arrives, the boy must go to school, and the owl must migrate.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2023
• The new study suggests not all dinosaurs could migrate at the same time.
  — Seth Borenstein, ajc, 16 Feb. 2021
• And — there won’t be as many of the big furry critters to migrate.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
• The problem is not with the bird’s wanting to migrate.
  — Big Think, 6 May 2026
• The ideal is that people don’t have to migrate.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
• Songbirds can migrate for thousands of miles across the globe.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2021
• The adult worms lay eggs, and then the larvae migrate to other parts of the body.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
• The group chat comes to life, the grill gets dusted off, and meals migrate outdoors.
  — Phoebe Fry, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Apr. 2026
• Many others migrate, as many birds do, to avoid harsh weather, to find food or to breed.
  — Saugat Bolakhe, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• The whole rug needs to get wet or colors in the fiber could migrate and result in a blotched look.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
• The baffle box design means the filler won’t migrate and will stay fluffy in all the right places.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 22 July 2025
• There are often over 200 bird species that migrate north.
  — Lauren David, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026
• All the chairs are light enough to move around easily, as the group of guests grows and migrates.
  — Rory Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2026
• All the chairs are light enough to move around easily, as the group of guests grows and migrates.
  — Rory Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 July 2026
• Her health was what led her son to migrate to the United States.
  — Adriana Loureiro Fernández, ProPublica, 19 Aug. 2025
• Will people have to migrate in the future due to extreme heat?
  — Dominique Mosbergen, WSJ, 20 July 2022
• The eelgrass in the refuge is a magnet for migrating ducks and geese.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• Many of those terms have migrated into e-mail and even into print.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• By the end of the season, most of the right whales had begun migrating north.
  — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
• However, some geese don't migrate at all.
  — Ayana Archie, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026
• The worms will migrate to the top tray, leaving the castings behind.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
• Turn off outdoor lights at night and mark windows to keep migrating birds safe.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026
• The soaps start to clump together to form the blisters and migrate through the paint film.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2022