How to Use resettle in a Sentence

resettle

verb
  • The Thomases have resettled in the Phoenix area and helped Alek buy a home.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • This won't be the first time Wausau was chosen to resettle refugees.
    Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In 2022, an agency resettled the couple and their two young daughters in the U.S.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2024
  • The State Department has a goal to resettle at least 5,000 refugees through the program.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But most of those leaving have resettled elsewhere in the state.
    Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The others resettled in third countries or went back to Lebanon.
    Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The numbers of Cubans seeking to resettle in the U.S. continue to grow.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The Bridge Builders Network, which helps refugees resettle and heal from trauma.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2021
  • The refugee system, which was hobbled by Trump, is on pace to resettle more people this year than at any time in the past three decades.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • This way the costs of resettling new arrivals are spread out and there is a smaller risk of a refugee being stranded.
    Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The number of refugees resettling in the Beehive State has increased in recent years after a drop in 2017.
    Megan Banta, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Resettlement agencies in the state, which agreed to the cap of 850 Afghans, may be asked to resettle more people.
    Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2022
  • That has contributed to the challenge of resettling more refugees.
    Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The next is Texas with 4,481, while a handful of states, including Wyoming and South Dakota, will resettle none.
    oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Helping Ukrainian refugees resettle will be good for the future of Ukraine.
    Dany Bahar, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2022
  • Barnes said his father resettled in Virginia and died less than a year later.
    Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Rahimi had chosen to resettle in the city because of his Marine friend.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • But its efforts to resettle migrants in Albany have been rocky, at best.
    Jay Root, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • In 2012, two years after Ciotti had resettled her, her brother and a friend stopped by the school in her new town and demanded to see the children.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Under the new arrangements, Greece and Italy would join Canada and Spain in resettling some of those processed at the offices.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 30 May 2024
  • Al Sudani settled in Houston from Iraq in 2009 and now works to resettle other refugees.
    Nomaan Merchant, The Denver Post, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The family resettled just over a mile away, in a makeshift structure of cinder block, concrete and sheet metal at the end of a winding dirt road.
    Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Rather than refugees who are resettled to the U.S. from abroad, individuals have to already be in the U.S. to apply for asylum.
    Ana Martín Gil, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Those whose asylum bids are approved will be brought to Italy and allowed to resettle there or in other EU countries.
    Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • And cities and states new to the program have been hobbled by their inexperience in resettling refugees.
    Emily Frazier, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
  • After resettling in New York, Nyah Mway had big plans, his family said.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 3 July 2024
  • In 1983, Uganda’s government began resettling the group, known as the Mosopisiek, downslope from the forest to make way for a national park.
    Jonathan W. Rosen, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • In addition, the group helped resettle 684 Afghan refugees who came as families.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers have resettled in the U.K. since 2021, among them prominent pro-democracy activists.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 27 May 2024
  • Her mother, already difficult, is struggling with dementia, hence the road trip, which is meant to resettle her into Robin’s home.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024

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