Example sentences for: refugee

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

  • Among the proposals: Tie immigration levels to the unemployment rate--when more jobs are open, more immigrants can be let in; give higher priority to the "independent" class of immigrants (those with necessary job skills); crack down on family sponsorship of immigrants, limiting it to immediate family members; and cut down on fraudulent claims of refugee status.

  • He believed himself to be a Palestinian refugee called C.O.R.P.S.E.

  • At the height of the 1994 refugee escapes to Miami, the author sees his neighbor "repairing the blue fibreglass boat that has sat untended the entire time we've been here.

  • Strictly speaking, then, according to The Economist, would a white refugee from Ian Smith's Rhodesia now living in the U.S. be justified in calling himself an “African-American”?

  • In a like manner, my friends may suspect I am suffering from some Hungarian Refugee Syndrome, which makes me overly sensitive to perfectly reasonable intrusions by the state.


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