emigrate

Example Sentences

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"It's not a pleasant feeling and honestly I'm still trying to understand what happened specifically," said Malinin, the son of Olympic figure skaters who represented Uzbekistan and emigrated to the United States.

From Barron's

Michtom, who emigrated in 1888 from an impoverished shtetl in the Russian Pale of Settlement, noted that the czar “was never that humanitarian.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Many of his friends also want to emigrate.

From The Wall Street Journal

Toruño was almost 10 when she emigrated from El Salvador to the United States, carrying with her the visual language of a country emerging from civil war.

From Los Angeles Times

When he emigrated from Russia, he was searching simply for freedom, he said.

From Los Angeles Times