How to Use repatriate in a Sentence

repatriate

verb

• Countries are required to repatriate prisoners of war when conflict has ended.
• And some of his peers who moved away would like to repatriate but are shut out of the market.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• After the war, the U.S. launched a worldwide effort to repatriate the dead.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2021
• Some refugees forcibly repatriated to the regime state have lived in the country for decades.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2023
• She was questioned by the F.B.I. and asked to be repatriated.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 11 June 2019
• Both groups have clamored for the boys’ home countries to repatriate them.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• McGee and Williams were repatriated to the United States.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
• This isn’t the first time the museum has repatriated art linked to Latchford.
  — Maysoon Khan, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• That process could inform future work to repatriate the 51.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 8 July 2021
• The bodies of the two Americans killed were repatriated to the U.S. on Thursday.
  — Anne Laurent, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
• His lawyers have managed to frustrate efforts to repatriate most of the funds frozen in his British bank accounts.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Earlier this year Germany pledged to repatriate more than 1,000 of them in the coming years.
  — Chinedu Asadu, ajc, 20 Dec. 2022
• The Smithsonian is not the first museum to repatriate art to Benin.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2022
• The flights were mostly used to help repatriate Canadians stuck over the border.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2020
• The Senegalese were in contact with the U.N. to evacuate the wounded soldier and repatriate the bodies.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• The end goal: To repatriate the land to the Duwamish, its original inhabitants.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 20 Dec. 2021
• But, because of the disease, the man's family was not able to repatriate his body and bury him in Oaxaca.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
• Three of the heads, known as toi moko, were repatriated from the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 14 June 2023
• Originally from what is now Iraq, the next step will be to repatriate it to that country, experts say.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2021
• Four out of five died in North Korea, while Jenkins was repatriated in 2004.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
• The bodies were repatriated to neighboring countries or buried in the Free State.
  — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Plans are underway to bring in forensics experts to identify and repatriate the remains of the children found buried on the site.
  — Rob Gillies, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2021
• And this week, nearly four decades after it had been stolen, the watch was repatriated at his family home.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 June 2024
• For years, the State Department has urged countries to repatriate their citizens, as the United States did.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2022
• Take, for example, the long-standing fight to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
• The journey home was even extended by two weeks, as the ship stopped off at various ports to repatriate crew members.
  — NBC News, 9 June 2020
• Just this week, Germany signed an accord with Nigeria to repatriate thousands of Benin Bronzes in state holdings in 2022.
  — Alex Greenberger For Artnews, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2021
• Once the agency decided to repatriate them, they were kept in the front of the cargo plane separated by black plastic sheets.
  — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 21 Feb. 2020
• The controls limit the amount of dollars that Argentines can buy and force exporters to repatriate their earnings.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• But chaos in the country has not stopped neighboring governments from repatriating Haitian migrants by the tens of thousands.
  — Hira Humayun, CNN, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024