Example sentences for: emigration

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

  • Forty years ago, before a sizable emigration from Mexico into New Mexico, in this state the Spanish-speaking element of the population carelessly called itself mexicano , as some of the older Hispanics still do, though New Mexico had not been part of Mexico for more than a century and then for only about a quarter of a century after New Spain became the Mexican Republic.

  • Until the moment of "emigration to space," Sun Ra's word was the law.

  • When that crop failed several years in succession, they had no viable alternative to starvation or (if they could afford it) emigration.

  • With a history of emigration and return, of welcoming visiting merchants and seafarers, and, during a brief period of occupation, a garrison of British troops, islanders are a cosmopolitan mix.

  • The government declared itself bankrupt in 1892, and emigration reached unprecedented levels.


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