How to Use repatriation in a Sentence

repatriation

noun

• Tourists spent the night on the airport floor, waiting for repatriation flights.
  — Fedja Grulovic, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
• Many of the tourists are British, and Jet2 was among the U.K. airlines organizing repatriation flights to get them home.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• The South African diamonds that will sit in the crown instead are also the subject of calls for repatriation.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• There are costs associated with repatriation, of course, for the tribes as well as the state.
  — John O’Connor and Melissa Perez Winder, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
• More than 1,000 Iraqis, mostly Kurds, have since left the region on repatriation flights.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• But even if change comes, repatriation will take time, likely years.
  — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2023
• Since the chance encounter, over two decades back, the Nso people have been calling for repatriation of their looted asset, but to no avail.
  — Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz, 8 July 2022
• This can reduce the overall cost of cloud repatriation.
  — Marcin Zgola, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Alex Potter is in Ukraine now, trying to arrange the repatriation of her husband’s body.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• Such painstaking puzzle work paves the way for the repatriation of Russian soldiers to their homeland.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2024
• Some museums in the state are also doing a good job of repatriation.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 June 2023
• In the final part of that chapter, Michalik tells about the repatriation in 2001 of some of the poles and other objects by members of the Harriman Retraced team.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021
• Bean and Hughes said that the repatriation serves as a step toward healing and rebuilding the parts of their culture that were taken.
  — Clarise Larson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
• In both cases, the museum supported the repatriation of the brains.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• The United Kingdom agreed to sit down and talk about the possible repatriation of the skull and related fossils back to Zambia.
  — Michael Balter, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2019
• The repatriation began on July 20 when staff at the Lexington removed the flag from its frame in a ceremony in the ship’s hangar bay.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• The Smithsonian, which has one of the largest collections of human remains in the world, is governed by a 1989 repatriation law.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• The Italian government has a repatriation agreement with Tunisia and is determined to slow the pace of arrivals.
  — Frank Miles, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2020
• At the request of the tribes, the museum is keeping the box for any future repatriation of other animals, Gusick said. P-22’s body was buried in a shroud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• The museum said the wall text is being adjusted to note the objects’ repatriation.
  — Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• But the Justice Department disagreed, and told the court in a filing that the mandatory repatriation tax is an income tax.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2023
• The city’s leader, Carrie Lam, said last week that the group must first face justice on the mainland before the Hong Kong government assists in their repatriation.
  — New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
• Isolated from the outside world with no hope of repatriation, Jenkins found a certain rhythm to his defeat.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• The move is the latest instance in a wave of repatriation efforts from prominent institutions around the world.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
• The new rule requires that those items not be displayed without tribal permission or if within the process of repatriation.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Uzbekistan wants to move beyond Gulnara, even without full repatriation of the frozen accounts beyond what the Swiss agreed to already in August.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• The British dealer and a colleague agreed to surrender the relief without admitting guilt, and in 2018, a New York judge ordered its repatriation.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• Stakeholders in Mexico told CNN last week that there had not appeared to be any significant change in the pace of repatriation flights in the country’s north.
  — David Shortell, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• The new interim government leader, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, has pledged to defend their rights as refugees and work to secure their eventual repatriation.
  — Nasir Uddin, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
• The community supported that study, saying that if DNA showed the remains were Rapanui, islanders would be interested in repatriation.
  — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024