- present participle of immigrate.
immigrating
Example Sentences
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Yong-ho Kim started working in Radio Korea’s advertising department a month after immigrating to the United States in February 1990, two years before the unrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Citizens of another seven countries were blocked from permanently immigrating to the U.S., or for applying for tourist or student visas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
In 1941, they were released and headed to Cuba, where they lived for two years before immigrating to New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Rothman’s family fled Romanian pogroms against Jewish people at the turn of the 20th century, immigrating to Philadelphia, according to Magda Peck, a cousin of Rothman’s mother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
My first poem was titled “The American Dream,” a tale of a woman immigrating to this country—“the land of unlimited opportunity”—and barely being able to feed her family.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
