How to Use migration in a Sentence

migration

noun
  • Vance said the first thing that needs to be done is to stem migration.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • And, as often happens in migrations like this, the hippies paved the way for the artists.
    Pilar Guzmán, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2023
  • In the lead-up to the end of Title 42, there has been an increase in migration at the southern border.
    Hamed Aleaziz, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • Now the city stands to be transformed again, this time by a great climate migration.
    Abrahm Lustgarten, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Higher mortgage rates have slowed migration trends, Redfin said, as the price to own a home grows.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • As migrations go, the oriole journey is not a long one.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Rutte may turn to the right wing for coalition partners more in sync with his new stance on migration.
    Time, 10 July 2023
  • The last week has been intense, to say the least, thousands crossing per day in the latest spike in migration.
    ABC News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The title of second-longest migration goes to the gray wolf, the caribou’s predator.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • When the right winds arrived on Wednesday, a large number of birds set off for their migration at once.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The study team had first thought nomadic hunters moved between distant kites with the migrations of herds of gazelles and antelopes.
    Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • And many of the birds that crashed were likely young and embarking on their first migration, according to Prince.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The two men discussed trying to work on getting at the root causes of migration, Kirby said.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Phoenix ranked 18th for fastest-growing places, highlighting the net migration to the Valley.
    Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
  • Bird song ebbs and flows with the seasons, peaking during migrations.
    Alexandra Marvar, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Related:What is Title 42 and how has U.S. used it to curb migration?
    Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • The move marks how far Germany has shifted in recent years on the flashpoint issue of migration.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Yet no matter the policy, Trump’s or Biden’s, migration will not end.
    Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 15 May 2023
  • The bomb threat suggests that untruths about migration may feed threats of violence for some time.
    Odette Yousef, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Chief among them are determining the boundary of the dump site, mapping the spread of the pollution and tracking its migration across the food web.
    Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
  • This bus station sits along one of the many threads of an invisible web of human migration.
    Palabra, al, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In the past few years, this migration had grown considerably.
    Quartz, 24 Jan. 2023
  • But that was followed by a marked slowdown in migration across the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
    Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • Some of the ways that birds like the Redstarts can speed up the migration are by flying faster and making fewer or shorter stops to refuel.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Gillet estimates the migration is near its midpoint, so Hoosiers can expect to see — or more likely hear — cranes for a few more weeks.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • What is critical to understand is that the end of Title 42 in itself does not change the root causes of migration.
    Ernesto Castañeda, The Conversation, 11 May 2023
  • Join us for a firsthand look at the world’s largest annual human migration.
    CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • What’s happening in the world right now is the biggest migration of people in history.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Fall migration runs through November, with peak activity through the end of this month.
    Shafaq Patel, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Eliminating incentives causing these migrations will allow the supply of housing to catch up with demand, stabilizing prices.
    The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024

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