How to Use emigrate in a Sentence

emigrate

verb

• Hundreds of thousands have emigrated since the end of communism in the 1990s and the chaos that ensued.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• My partner’s parents, on the other hand, emigrated from the Philippines in the 1960s.
  — Samantha Vincenty, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2023
• Many Guatemalans cite fears of extortion and crime as reasons to emigrate.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• 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
• An Iranian Jew, her parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
• 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
• By 1989, the year the government put down the Tiananmen Square protests, Li’s family was making plans to emigrate.
  — Martin Wolk, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Before emigrating from the Philippines, Tamayo worked as a ship captain the Merchant Marines.
  — Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• Like so many in South Florida, Suarez’s father emigrated from Cuba in the 1960s as a young boy.
  — Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Natives of the southern Indian state of Kerala, they are also known to emigrate to far corners of the world.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2023
• Nada, whose parents emigrated from Egypt and Syria, is tall and slender, with curly dark hair that’s neat at the sides and unruly on top.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• This is in a bid to discourage others from trying to emigrate to Europe.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 29 June 2022
• After his imprisonment, Fainberg was able to emigrate to the West.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Feb. 2023
• Claudia Tang, 59, left the city for Australia at the time expecting to emigrate but later returned.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• The resumption comes as the number of Cubans trying to emigrate illegally to the United States surges.
  — Andrea Rodríguez, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022
• Many Jews emigrated from Morocco to Israel to play a part in building the Jewish state.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• Berger and his mom, dad, and younger brother emigrated from Guarapari in 2016.
  — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
• The family fled to Portugal and 11 months later obtained visas to emigrate to the United States.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Wala was born in India and emigrated along with his family to Canada at age 11.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• In February 1962, mother and son emigrated to the U.S. as dad was forced to remain behind.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
• Some of the longest lines formed in capitals where large numbers of Russians have emigrated since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
• Eliane, who lives in Paris and is 86 years old, was born in Tunisia to Italian parents who emigrated in hope of finding work and making a better life for themselves.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Saveur, 12 July 2023
• Listen to women, who tried to emigrate, and had an identity crisis afterwards, or the ones who were forced to quit some other plans of theirs.
  — Anna Tatarska, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
• Many of my filmmaker friends have emigrated from the country in the last two years and are trying to make films on the other side of Iran’s political borders.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• The East German government tried to stem the flight to the West by publishing the draft of a law permitting every citizen to travel abroad or emigrate.
  — Marilyn Berger, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• My mom emigrated from South Korea in 1967, bringing a set of flavors, techniques and recipes that would fossilize from that moment.
  — Cammie Kim Lin, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2023
• With few professional opportunities in the area, some men were forced to emigrate to nearby tourist towns, Guatemala City and the United States to find work.
  — Jennifer Simonson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
• Gutierrez had emigrated from Mexico a decade earlier with the dream of opening a restaurant of his own.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• Those who did not take up arms but were unwilling to emigrate or swear loyalty to the Jewish state would not be harmed, according to the plan, but would forego any hope of acquiring equal rights.
  — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2023
• His parents divorced, and his mother sought ways to emigrate with her sons as Nazi persecution of Jews increased.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024