huddled masses
Example Sentences
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If no one else wants them, we’ll take the tired and poor, the huddled masses.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2024
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2023
The Irish were among the "huddled masses" who glimpsed the Statue of Liberty on their way to Ellis Island in New York and the start of a new American life.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2023
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
There, with the huddled masses, she and her son are herded through cattle pens to be examined by doctors for sickness or disease.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
