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
• Rohingya who have been repatriated in the past have been forced to live in camps in Myanmar.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Despite his hard work, the Peabody did not repatriate the remains of the Wabanaki, or the four tribes of Maine, for another 50 years.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Hundreds of remains have been repatriated since 1990, but the process has been fraught with mistrust.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• 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 expenses stem from a one-time tax charge to repatriate, or return to its home country, overseas cash or funds.
  — Lisa Marie Segarra, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Apple announced this week plans to repatriate nearly $250 billion in cash from overseas to the U.S.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2018
• Some of our friends are planning to temporarily repatriate themselves to homes in the U.S. and Europe.
  — Aryn Baker, TIME.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• The Pentagon repatriated a Tunisian detainee who had been held in Guantánamo Bay since the prison there opened.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Jan 2025