Example sentences for: emigration

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

  • When the unexpected Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 spurred his emigration to the United States, Bela Julesz, with his Hungarian doctorate in engineering, joined the numerous mathematical luminaries working at AT&T Bell Laboratories, such as John Tukey, Harry Nyquist, Claude Shannon, and John Kelly.

  • 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.

  • Cursed by emigration since the potato famine of the 1840s, "Ireland ached to present itself as Europe's 'victim,' with the English invariably cast as the villain of the piece.

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

  • The LAT lead states that economic normalization between the U.S. and Vietnam will result from the administration's decision, based on its view that Vietnam's emigration policies have improved considerably, to grant Vietnam a waiver from the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which bars full economic relations with Communist countries that don't permit free emigration.


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