How to Use refugee in a Sentence

refugee

noun

• Thousands of refugees have fled the area.
• Can Ukrainian refugees go back to Ukraine in two years?
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
• But in 1991 Ethiopian soldiers forced the refugees to leave.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
• The refugees are brutally chased across the border out of the EU into the darkness of the woods.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
• The militant group Hamas claimed five of the nine killed in this refugee camp this year as their fighters.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
• Pinto and her dad landed at a refugee camp on an island off the Malaysian coast.
  — Clayton Park, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
• The refugees live like long-term residents among Egyptians in big cities like Cairo.
  — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• Many continued to Poland and crossed into Ukraine from there or stayed in refugee camps.
  — Samya Kullab and Hanna Arhirova, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
• While some stayed in refugee camps, there was no resources to treat their severe trauma.
  — Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 6 June 2024
• The Haynes family were health refugees to Los Angeles at the turn of the last century.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• How the world supports refugees is a deeply complex issue with no easy answers.
  — Time, 20 June 2023
• Some have been refugees for years; some had moved south after an Israeli warning.
  — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
• To that end the clever little girl wrote an affecting letter to the British refugee committee.
  — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
• But today, there are increasing signs the refugees may have worn out their welcome.
  — Scott McLean, CNN, 24 July 2024
• When the family fled the Khmer Rouge, this sausage-making kept the family alive during lean times in a Thai refugee camp.
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• Gladkov said the sanatorium in the village of Lavy, about 25 miles from the border, was shelled, killing two refugees and a staff member.
  — Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• With Sarah awaiting surgery, Ms. Foad and her children moved into an apartment for refugees in Bologna.
  — Nariman El-Mofty Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• The group’s founding members are Berber nomads who met more than 40 years ago at a refugee camp in Algeria.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
• Last month, Israel sent hundreds of soldiers, backed by air cover, into Jenin’s refugee camp, a show of force not seen in the West Bank in 20 years.
  — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• Her face was charred with third-degree burns after an Israeli airstrike hit her home at Jabalia refugee camp, the aid group said.
  — Ana Ley, New York Times, 5 May 2024
• The Swimmers is a powerful portrait of their story and the global refugee crisis.
  — Women's Health, 25 May 2023
• As the world can see on cable and social media, 80% of Gaza’s 2.2 million people are now refugees living in squalor.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• News footage soon after showed at least 47 bodies, including children, pulled from the rubble in the refugee camp.
  — Phil Klay, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• In some Polish areas, up to 20% of the population are recent refugees from Ukraine.
  — Byjeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• Rafah is a nearly twenty-five-square-mile area, in which refugees from Gaza City and Khan Younis are now sheltering.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
• Many of these were protests about the lack of affordable housing, or against plainly foolish schemes for housing refugees.
  — The Editors, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
• The film is a dramatization of the plight of refugees stranded on the natural border between Poland and Belarus.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• The crisis has sent growing numbers of refugees across Sudan’s borders.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
• In 2020, Lee made history as the first Hmong American Olympian and became an icon for the refugee community.
  — Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
• For Jamiel, who came to Baltimore as a refugee and quickly found solace in soccer, Tuesday marked his first time ever seeing Barcelona, his favorite team, in person.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024