How to Use refugee in a Sentence

refugee

noun

• Thousands of refugees have fled the area.
• The model, Nastya, is a refugee from Cherkassy, Ukraine.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 3 July 2022
• Venezuela is one of the countries in the world with the most refugees in other countries.
  — E.r. Pulgar, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2024
• My dad was a refugee and worked his way up in every way.
  — Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com, 23 Apr. 2022
• Can Ukrainian refugees go back to Ukraine in two years?
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
• Lyoya, a Congolese refugee, was 26 at the time of his death.
  — Arpan Lobo, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
• Some of the children had never seen the outside of a refugee camp.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 6 Dec. 2021
• The tent is a makeshift restaurant inside a refugee camp.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2023
• The house was a common hang spot with a feeling of refugee for artist types.
  — Amanda Peukert, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2024
• But in 1991 Ethiopian soldiers forced the refugees to leave.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
• The refugees are brutally chased across the border out of the EU into the darkness of the woods.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
• Lyoya, a refugee from Congo, was on the ground when he was killed.
  — CBS News, 31 Oct. 2022
• Robyn is a refugee from the Bronx with a pocketful of secrets.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
• Don’t exploit or mistreat the refugee, the orphan, and the widow.
  — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 4 Aug. 2022
• Many live in the 12 refugee camps that are scattered around the small Mediterranean country.
  — NBC News, 10 Dec. 2021
• The militant group Hamas claimed five of the nine killed in this refugee camp this year as their fighters.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
• The first was a three-part thread on the Ukrainian refugee crisis, and the other was a tweet about March Madness.
  — Ana Faguy, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2022
• That left the refugees inside with nowhere to turn for basic supplies like food and gas.
  — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2025
• This prompted a new wave of refugees to seek sanctuary in Kenya.
  — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
• Pinto and her dad landed at a refugee camp on an island off the Malaysian coast.
  — Clayton Park, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
• Some have spent years in refugee camps awaiting a chance to settle in a host country.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2021
• First, large-scale aid was designed to support refugee camps.
  — Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2022
• In Kenya, the government wants to close the country’s massive Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps by the end of this month.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2022
• The church leader was a refugee twice during his childhood.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022
• The refugees live like long-term residents among Egyptians in big cities like Cairo.
  — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• Many continued to Poland and crossed into Ukraine from there or stayed in refugee camps.
  — Samya Kullab and Hanna Arhirova, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
• But war is about to break out in neighboring Ukraine, leaving Poland to bear the brunt of a refugee crisis.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2022
• In the early 1990s, her family fled over the border to a refugee camp in Thailand.
  — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• Initial estimates indicated that over 3 million refugees crossed the border to Poland.
  — Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
• Thanks to a secret brain-swapping experiment, Mabel is able to transfer her mind into a robot beaver and heads to a pond, where refugees from the encroaching industrialization have landed.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025