How to Use expatriate in a Sentence

expatriate

1 of 2 adjective

• By the end of 2015, all but one of the expatriate workers on the ship had evacuated.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The city of San Miguel Allende sucks all the air out of the room when the conversation turns to expatriate life in Mexico.
  — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2018
• The venues for the event are being built by mainly expatriate workers from South Asia and elsewhere.
  — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
• As expatriate North Carolinians have told me, no place in the country has better and longer springs.
  — Twin Cities, 13 May 2017
• Coates even moved for a time to France, as Baldwin did, and Coates’s expatriate distance only sharpened his view of the goings-on at home.
  — Kevin Young, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• These schools tended to be staffed by nationals from the expatriate country of origin and to teach a curriculum that was based on the one found in the home country.
  — Newsweek Educational Insight, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• At least for this expatriate Brit, those concerns haven’t lessened since June 2016.
  — WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
• Germany, the Netherlands and Austria are some of the countries that host the largest Turkish expatriate population in the world.
  — Ayca Arkilic, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
• Because the project is so crucial to Chevron’s future, the company has assembled a team of expatriate stalwarts to push it over the line.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• The controversial moment came after a lengthy speech by the president to a crowd of expatriate Filipinos in Seoul.
  — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 4 June 2018
• At a 2018 news conference about the case, authorities said McLeod might be in expatriate communities on the coast, and was known to go to nightclubs.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
• Dubai has always embraced expatriate workers from around the world.
  — Ellen Paris, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• In his spare time, Patrick started a slo-pitch softball team at his local pub with the help of another expatriate American.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• Hong Kong doesn’t allow it, but does permit gay expatriate workers to bring their spouses in on dependent visas.
  — Yongchang Chin, Bloomberg.com, 5 Aug. 2022
• Paris is home to a large expatriate population, many of them Americans.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2020
• In the cities, expatriate compounds where many foreigners live have allowed women to drive, safe in the knowledge that the Saudi police, or worse still the religious police, are not allowed inside the gates.
  — Simon Henderson, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2017
• But the band broke up in the early 1980s, at the end of its only international tour, and Mr. Mergia settled in the Washington area, home to the world’s largest expatriate Ethiopian community.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• There are likely more expatriate Chinese in Africa than there are expatriate whites.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2010
• For years, his mother and her expatriate friends had been helping people in Venezuela, and then last year began sending small amounts of medical supplies through suitcases.
  — David Medina, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
• That question, long debated on tourist and expatriate websites, is now being used to encourage U.S. expats to register to vote in this year’s midterm elections.
  — Helena Bachmann, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• Erdogan is hoping to cement his grip on power in an election this month and some 1.4 million expatriate Turks are eligible to vote in Germany.
  — Ciaran Fahey, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• She was educated at a convent, and then sent to live with a cluster of aunts living in Bangkok’s expatriate Indian community.
  — Jillian Dunham, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• This, apparently, is the reason the Daughters put up these abominations in places like Montana, so that the expatriate Confederates could take comfort in the fact that the cause of white supremacy was alive everywhere in the country.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 17 Aug. 2017
• Pondering her future, Zhang was both curious about and daunted by the examples of Hao and other expatriate writers.
  — Han Zhang, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Some locals in Bali said bitcoin was being used mainly by foreigners on the island, which is Indonesia’s tourism hub and has a large expatriate community.
  — Reuters, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2018
• His family was living the expatriate life in Paris, traveling home to Brazil during vacations.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• To help, recreation facilities are laid on in the separate village where the mainly expatriate employees live.
  — Barry Neild, CNN, 29 May 2017
• The company, founded in 1980, became one of the largest remittance operators in the Middle East by mainly catering to Indian expatriate workers in the Gulf.
  — Dinesh Nair, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• Expatriate workers can often be seen performing tasks that locals would undertake elsewhere in Africa.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 24 June 2017
• My expatriate friends in China face an uncertain future: One family that had been vacationing abroad before the virus began to take hold is now bunking with relatives in Taiwan.
  — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 27 Feb. 2020

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expatriate

2 of 2 noun

• And the show is also a show that's very much about being an expatriate in Paris and working and having jobs.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2022
• Some of those caucuses are even taking place for Iowans out of state and for Hawkeye State expatriates in cities around the world.
  — Tim Darnell, ajc, 30 Jan. 2020
• The Dart brothers’ moves partially spurred the Senate to propose a law in the 1990s closing a tax loophole for expatriates.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
• The following day was a big travel day for the tens of thousands of expatriates who’d returned to Lebanon for the holidays and were heading back to their lives abroad.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
• The Major, an expatriate, returns to Mingheria as the Princess’s bodyguard.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
• Monroe plays Julie, a young expatriate who is sure a neighbor is watching her through his window.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2022
• That drew a stern rebuke from a U.S. expatriate group in Mexico.
  — Fox News, 15 June 2023
• Back in Mexico City, officials were struggling to figure out how to keep up with the expatriate death toll.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2021
• For this expatriate, who has seldom been accused of chauvinism, the answer would be no.
  — WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• That morning, the baby’s godfather, an expatriate writer, had caused a stir in the church, since none of the villagers, most of them farmers, had ever seen a Black man in person.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• The mood in Feltre—among Italians and expatriates alike—was that of indignation.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2020
• Many Lebanese expatriates who typically flock to Lebanon at this time of year are now reluctant because of the unrest.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• Many expatriate workers have left the city for Singapore, which started its reopening in the spring and stuck with it even as case counts rebounded.
  — Kari Lindberg, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2022
• That shift potentially puts at risk millions of expatriate workers who call the U.A.E. home.
  — Rory Jones, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2022
• Baldwin also remained an expatriate, like Chester Himes, who simmered away in Franco’s Spain at a time when most artists boycotted the country.
  — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
• On a planet on the move, whether you’re slotted as a refugee, migrant, expatriate, or tourist, can mean, literally, the difference between life and death.
  — Suketu Mehta, Time, 17 Sep. 2021
• For these reasons, many expatriates prefer to hold the bulk of their assets in U.S.-based accounts and transfer money to a local account as needed.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• In Kabul, the busiest place in town was a Red Cross clinic, run by a kindhearted Italian expatriate, which made prosthetics for amputees.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2021
• War-weary South Sudan — one of the world’s poorest countries — is ill-equipped to absorb Sudanese refugees or returning expatriates.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• For the young couple, things are going smoothly until Mehdi meets Marie, a young French woman caught up in the social life of the expatriate community.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Nov. 2022
• Demand for Moutai, the fiery Chinese spirit which has caught many a greenhorn China expatriate unawares, has been strong in recent years while supply hasn’t kept up.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 23 June 2020
• By the 1920s, Dada was firmly entrenched there, and an expatriate community flourished on the Left Bank.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
• In Gringos, an expatriate in Mexico with a taste for order finds himself amid hippies, end-of-the-world cultists and disappearing friends.
  — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2020
• In ‘‘Gringos,’’ an expatriate in Mexico with a taste for order finds himself amid hippies, end-of-the-world cultists, and disappearing friends.
  — Hillel Italie, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2020
• To clarify, an expatriate is someone who moves to another country and pays taxes there (and no longer pays taxes at home).
  — Lilly Graves, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2021
• New England’s two expatriates are hardly the only N.F.C. players with appeal and top-line talent.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2020
• Hundreds of thousands of expatriate workers lost their jobs.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• By the time Russia crossed into Ukraine, expatriate workers and their families had already left, the company said.
  — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• And France doesn’t have preexisting Ukrainian expatriate networks to the extent that can be found elsewhere in Europe.
  — Rick Noack and Sandra Mehl, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2022
• Partly due to its status as a global financial hub, Hong Kong is a major destination for expatriates from across the world.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 5 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024