How to Use immigrant in a Sentence

immigrant

noun

• The city has a large immigrant population.
• Millions of immigrants came to America from Europe in the 19th century.
• More than half of the seventh- and eighth-graders in the club are refugees, and almost all are immigrants.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• Apple is bringing the tales of immigrants to the screen.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• In the Bay Area, turning our backs on immigrants hurts us all.
  — Peter Leroe-Munoz, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2019
• And, yes, a false claim of Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats.
  — Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2024
• Italy has one of the world’s lowest birth rates, and few countries are in greater need of immigrants.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• Ghosh is an immigrant from India and the daughter of refugees.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
• This approach is new to the country, and also new to me—the daughter of a Guatemalan immigrant.
  — Eva Sandoval, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2021
• What was life like for him as a young immigrant with two children?
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
• Like about a third of nursing aides, Salma is an immigrant.
  — Tara Sklar, The Conversation, 23 Nov. 2020
• The crowd laughs and cheers as speakers rail against immigrants, politicians and the media.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant who’d risen from humble origins to one of the richest men in the world.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2020
• And a lot of immigrants are going to see themselves in this story.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
• My job: defending the rights of immigrants and refugees.
  — Health.com, 26 June 2018
• The chain traces its roots back to a Seattle shoe store opened by Swedish immigrant John Nordstrom and a partner in 1901.
  — CBS News, 19 May 2024
• Hundreds, if not thousands, of Irish immigrants, free blacks, and convicts lost their lives in the process.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 5 Oct. 2017
• Stanisława Jóźwiak, a 73-year-old Polish immigrant, was one of those who never made it out of her car.
  — Brianna Sacks and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
• To the sisters, the treatment of immigrants is a moral issue, not specific to any faith.
  — Marie Fazio, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2019
• My mother, an immigrant, made the art of voting a central pride in her life and taught me to value this right.
  — Marie Claire, 16 Oct. 2018
• About 30% of Asians born in the US have hidden their culture, compared with 15% of Asian immigrants, the report shows.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 8 May 2023
• Iraelia, a Cuban immigrant who has been with the workshop from the start handles embroidery and hand sewing.
  — Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Dec. 2022
• Health care already relies on immigrants to fill the ranks.
  — Carmen Heredia Rodriguez and Ana B. Ibarra, Kaiser Health News, 18 Sep. 2017
• In 2021 someone set fire to a Guatemalan immigrant’s sleeping bag, leading to the man’s death from burn injuries.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• These protests ultimately paled in the face of the thousands of Mainers who came out to support the African immigrants.
  — Jocelyn Ruggiero, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• He was born at home in Santa Clara to Italian immigrants.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 22 July 2024
• That’s when Sanchez, also the daughter of an immigrant, hit her limit.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2018
• Born in Portland in 1912, Lee was the second of eight children born to Chinese immigrants.
  — Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
• These early immigrants shingled their homes with alerce wood, giving the downtown its storybook aesthetic.
  — Mark Johanson, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2024
• Inside a cartel's human-smuggling operation Police eventually stopped the vehicle and apprehended the three undocumented immigrants, as well as one of the soldiers, identified as Emilio Mendoza Lopez.
  — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024