huddled masses
Example Sentences
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The lines, "Give me your tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," are inscribed on a plaque in the statue's museum.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2024
But surely many say it's far better to offer a céad míle fáilte than to see your "huddled masses" depart for foreign lands.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2023
Things like: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022
By now, we all know the stirring stories about immigrants’ arduous journeys to America ― about Ellis Island, about huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2022
“She was a writer and a poet. She wrote a poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty that says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
