Example sentences for: emigrants

How can you use “emigrants” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A tour through the cave includes a brief ride on an underground river in a boat (which would-be emigrants once stole for an unsuccessful escape attempt to Florida).

  • New Irish President Mary McAleese, it reported, had told her fellow citizens that they had a duty to give immigrants the same welcome that Irish emigrants had always received abroad, but despite this, their hostility to immigrants was increasing.

  • Socialists talked of Italy’s “civilizing mission” in the Mediterranean, seeking to divert the flow of emigrants (heading increasingly to the Americas) to experimental collectiv e land management in new African colonies in Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

  • The new and partially completed homes of returned emigrants stand out from the simple houses strung alongside fields still worked by donkey plow.

  • (Such countries are currently defined as those with fewer than 50,000 emigrants to the United States in the previous five years.)


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