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
  • The State Department has a goal to resettle at least 5,000 refugees through the program.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • By the end of this week, Exodus will have helped 280 people resettle in the Indianapolis area, Varga said.
    Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Over the past two years, Park has helped resettle two different refugee families -- one from Afghanistan and another from Ukraine.
    cleveland, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Because San Diego has a long history as a place where refugees resettle, businesses around the county cater to their many cultures.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2023
  • But faced with a wave of backlash against refugees, his government has been seeking ways to resettle Syrians.
    Neyran Elden, NBC News, 13 May 2023
  • In 2001, relatives in the Boston area helped them get resettled in America.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Agencies across the state have been working to help families resettle in a new home, while providing support services along the way.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Instead, the Kremlin quickly cut a deal with Prigozhin to end the armed revolt, saying he would be allowed to walk free without facing any charges and to resettle in Belarus.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In the absence of help from national leaders, an informal group of tribal elders from across the country has stepped in to help resettle the exiles.
    New York Times, 31 July 2022
  • Many of the officers stuck in limbo have families, who now can’t resettle or find schools because the promotions haven’t gone through.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023

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