EMIGRANT in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for EMIGRANT, such as:

1. My father was an emigrant count.
2. Many emigrated to Australia to seek their fortune.
3. A ship full of emigrants will soon leave for Canada.
4. I know he wants to speak to you about your emigrating.
5. He called for a halt to the recent wave of emigration.

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 Meanings and Examples of EMIGRANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
emigrant
 n.  someone who leaves one country to settle in another
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this Peter here is an emigrant from there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
2  My father was an emigrant count.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIX
3  In this emigration I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident and knew not how to reproduce it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
4  He would have been pronounced a preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
5  They seldom, it would appear, partook of the religious zeal that brought other emigrants across the Atlantic.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
6  The picture of human life in the market-place, though its general tint was the sad gray, brown, or black of the English emigrants, was yet enlivened by some diversity of hue.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
7  The family, as emigrants, being objects of some interest in and about Hungerford, attracted so many beholders, that we were glad to take refuge in their room.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
8  When this was done, my aunt and Agnes rose, and parted from the emigrants.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
9  Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscuit of the whale-ship luckily dropping an anchor in their waters.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
10  Then the children had been taken away, and the company had sold the house that very same week to a party of emigrants.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
11  was by the grace of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
12  Adams had been a cotton operative in Fall River, and the continued depression in the industry had worn him and his family out, and he had emigrated to South Carolina.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
13  The mother of Augustine was a Huguenot French lady, whose family had emigrated to Louisiana during the days of its early settlement.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Revolution.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL
15  I know he wants to speak to you about your emigrating.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In SECOND ACT
Example Sentence:
1  They want to check the databases of passenger lists and emigrant ships.
2  The authorities have failed so far to enact a law allowing unrestricted emigration.
3  He called for a halt to the recent wave of emigration.
4  A ship full of emigrants will soon leave for Canada.
5  The Roth family, whose progenitor emigrated from Germany early in the nineteenth century, settled in Peru, Illinois.
6  He emigrated from Britain to Australia in order to find a better job.
7  Millions of Germans emigrated from Europe to America in the nineteenth century.
8  Many emigrated to Australia to seek their fortune.
9  I'm seriously considering the possibility of emigrating.
10  Everybody was flabbergasted when I announced I was going to emigrate to Australia.
11  Political changes in eastern Europe opened the floodgates to thousands of people who wished to emigrate.
12  The family decided to shake the dust off their feet and emigrate to Australia.
13  He planned to emigrate from Britain to Australia in order to find a better job.