Example sentences for: émigré

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

  • Occupying the entire third floor of the museum, it includes both a full-scale replica of Pollock's studio in the Springs, on Long Island, and a continuous showing of the fascinating films that Hans Namuth, a German émigré photographer, made of Pollock painting at the peak of his career.

  • A suspect has been charged with the murder of Ennis Cosby . A $100,000 reward offered by the National Enquirer led to a tip, which led police to the gun and the killer's cap, which led to the arrest of Mikail Markhasev, an 18-year-old Russian émigré with a criminal background.

  • This became a cause cé-lébre among the émigré élite.

  • Vladimir Nabokov's taxonomies of Latin American butterflies, long disparaged as armchair entomology, turn out to be top-drawer science, according to a recent article in the New York Times . In the 1940s, the émigré novelist held a part-time job at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and published the first attempted classification of an obscure group of blue butterflies known as Polyommatini . For years, Nabokov's study attracted more attention from literary critics than from scientists.


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