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  • Here we were, like fleeing refugees, trekking in from some ruined zone of war.   (source)
    refugees = people fleeing their homeland
  • The family are refugees and have no medical records.   (source)
    refugees = people who fled their homeland
  • For many months now she had been a refugee, traveling west from Saigon with her two aunts.   (source)
    refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
  • All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean.   (source)
    refugees = people who fled their homeland
  • Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.   (source)
    refugee = someone who fled their homeland
  • Often, growers evicted the strikers from their labor camps, forcing many to live together in makeshift refugee camps, sometimes on farms on the outskirts of towns.†   (source)
  • Welcome, Refugees from Ember!†   (source)
  • It's maddening, for there seems to be no end in sight to this relentless underground railroad of refugees.†   (source)
  • Was this one for a refugee too?†   (source)
  • I remembered the streams of refugees I'd walked with through Washington.†   (source)
  • In the entry hall, there were grown men sleeping on benches, like refugees in a railway station.†   (source)
  • Even Aeneas, that Trojan refugee, had founded a city.†   (source)
  • For a long time, South Africa refused to take in any more Jewish refugees.†   (source)
  • I was the only child of two teenagers, both refugees who'd met in the stacks where I'd grown up.†   (source)
  • But most of the refugees were boys and young men who had run away from their villages when the war came.†   (source)
  • In those first years the roads were peopled with refugees shrouded up in their clothing.†   (source)
  • His music was causing lines of bugs to leave the strawberry patch in every direction, like refugees fleeing a fire.†   (source)
  • The Polish government was intent on proving that it was as antisemitic as the Nazis and so refused to grant the refugees permission to reenter their homeland.†   (source)
  • There were all sorts of draft refusers in Vancouver, and refugees from the army, and lots of their families treated them like heroes, or at least accepted what they did, and sent letters and presents.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that it was actually taking place in our country.†   (source)
  • They were Vietnamese orphans; they were refugee children.†   (source)
  • Du made it out of the refugee camp, and his brother didn't.†   (source)
  • The Illuminati went deep underground, where they began mixing with other refugee groups fleeing the Catholic purges-mystics, alchemists, occultists, Muslims, Jews.†   (source)
  • He imagines two or three dozen listeners up and down the coast—maybe more tuning in out at sea, captain's sets on free ships hauling tomatoes or refugees or guns—Englishmen who expect the numbers but not the music, who must wonder: Why?†   (source)
  • We're refugees from the tribal wars, and we need money," the other figure said.†   (source)
  • We had several months' worth of supplies—or less, depending upon how many more refugees wandered into camp.†   (source)
  • That Lola, who was fifteen, and the nine-year-old twins, Jackson and Pierrot, were refugees from a bitter domestic civil war should have mattered more to Briony.†   (source)
  • And soon, it will be the sanctuary of every Red refugee fleeing the king's new punishments.†   (source)
  • It was a home for refugee kids?†   (source)
  • One of them had written an essay about being a refugee from Laos.†   (source)
  • Numbly, like a refugee, I waited under the sleazy fluorescents as the clerk looked at the card at a number of different angles and in different lights, at length finding it genuine.†   (source)
  • The occasional German patrols who idly surveyed the refugees paid them no particular attention.†   (source)
  • He tells of another refugee: the baby Jesus, whose family had to flee the land of Israel and go to Egypt after an angel told Joseph they were in danger.†   (source)
  • All around them were refugees from San Francisco.†   (source)
  • There's nothing like living as a refugee in one's own country to turn a generous soul into a hard little fist.†   (source)
  • Refugees — people trying to escape the Nazis — started appearing at the Bradys' door, asking for money, food and shelter.†   (source)
  • Every chair was filled, every table occupied, mostly by men, and the floors were littered with packs, weapons, bedrolls, antiquated comm equipment, ration boxes, and all of the other detritus of an army of refugees… or perhaps a refugee army.†   (source)
  • One million Afghans fled the country as refugees.†   (source)
  • Out west she meets new people, encounters a completely alien but inviting landscape, becomes the de facto mother of a three-year-old Native American girl she calls Turtle, and finds herself involved in the shelter movement for Central American refugees.†   (source)
  • It looked like pictures she'd seen of Hooverville or some makeshift refugee settlement.†   (source)
  • On the edge of Haarlem was a truck farm that hid refugees for short periods of time.†   (source)
  • The top deck has been turned into an open-air refugee camp.†   (source)
  • It has recruited refugees and asylum-seekers from Laos and Bosnia.†   (source)
  • One of my teachers was a Cuban refugee named Mr. Enrfquez.†   (source)
  • When they fought, Estha called Rahel a Refugee Stick Insect.†   (source)
  • As a teenager, Biermann went east, against the stream of refugees going the other way to West Germany.†   (source)
  • The poor, downtrodden refugee.†   (source)
  • Introduce me to your fellow refugees, then.†   (source)
  • When he was a young man he would stop in the Parish Cafe before coming home, and this was where he perfected his chess game with his father-in-law's cronies and some Caribbean refugees.†   (source)
  • They thought to burden us with refugees.†   (source)
  • His face, with its exaggerated shadows and planes of light, looked alien and pained, like a refugees.†   (source)
  • On Mykonos he had preferred the outskirts of the migrant camps, and he had grown accustomed to a degree of independence from their fellow refugees.†   (source)
  • Why, the embassies were surrounded these days, and all the recent refugees had been intercepted and put in prison where most of them had disappeared forever.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she went to houses where people were dying, and often, especially in Cange among the water refugees, these were children in the throes of one or another of the diarrheal diseases.†   (source)
  • Most were refugees, although soldiers and other men of business were also present.†   (source)
  • The desks and chairs that had been brought back to this makeshift school were for little children, not high school refugees.†   (source)
  • Thousands-perhaps millions-of refugees from the Afghanistan war had also poured into the city.†   (source)
  • One of these was the Canadian-born poet, Lorenzo, moon-faced, with much curly hair; and his girl, a refugee from the Texas backwater, scissor-faced, with much straight hair, and a thumb-chewing giggle; and their sidekick, older, lantern-jawed, with tortured lips, who scowled when he was pleased—which was rare—and smiled a pallid smile when he was frightened—which was almost always—so that he enjoyed the reputation of being extremely good-natured.†   (source)
  • AmaMfengu, who were not originally Xhosa-speakers, were refugees from the iMfecane and were forced to do jobs that no other African would do.†   (source)
  • We've got that refugee from the Home for Old Actors on our side.†   (source)
  • The boy stumbling through refugee camps, no parents, his brother dead, taught violence in an underground school.†   (source)
  • A refugee.†   (source)
  • The funding cut forced Marie Stopes to drop a planned outreach program to help Somali and Rwandan refugees.†   (source)
  • Dempsey was offered a tempting job—establishing a hospital for Palestinian refugees on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives—but the Mortensons decided it was time for their children to experience America.†   (source)
  • The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees -- not to respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory.†   (source)
  • I knew he was a refugee because I'd heard his accent on the few occasions when someone he knew, also from that other world, would pause for a moment at his table.†   (source)
  • Clay Whitaker is chasing me on my way to first period on Thursday, hair as disheveled as his clothes, looking every bit a refugee from the Island of Misfit Boys.†   (source)
  • The butcher ran to the edge of the village and shouted to the stream of refugees.†   (source)
  • And so Cedric races around the echoing yard, searching the labyrinth of dorms for a few such refugees-namely, Mark McIntosh and his twin sister, Belinda.†   (source)
  • Behind his words there was more than joy at seeing children run and grass grow; there was a deep understanding of the plight of a refugee from a Communist country where, the senator was convinced, no grass grew or children ran.†   (source)
  • No, no, no. That girl came here as a refugee, just like the rest of us.†   (source)
  • Another rain refugee flees south.†   (source)
  • In these houses lived Jews, Irish, Germans, and some Spanish Civil War refugee families that had fled the new Franco regime before the onset of the Second World War.†   (source)
  • Climate change also has a detrimental impact on cultures and humanity's well-being as more people are becoming environmental refugees.†   (source)
  • It was as though the tenants had vanished, leaving the houses silent with all windows shaded, refugees from a rising flood.†   (source)
  • A shout from other refugees, fleeing too urgently to stop?†   (source)
  • Those who were already refugees—those who had earlier fled Cambridge, Roxbury, or Milton for the presumed safety of Boston—knew what it was to abandon everything and find themselves dependent on charity.†   (source)
  • She could have zipped through any number of drive-through InstaStores, but she preferred the little deli on the corner of West Seventy-eighth—despite, or perhaps because of the fact that it was owned and run by Francois, a rude, snake-eyed refugee who'd fled to America after the Social Reform Army had overthrown the French government some forty years before.†   (source)
  • I was on duty and thought it was a straightforward refugee case, so I took Bjurman with me as legal advisor.†   (source)
  • I AM A POLITICAL REFUGEE FROM CUBA.†   (source)
  • Great bristling balls of tumbleweed, robbed of their green by the merciless Western sun, cracked from their roots by the withering dryness of the California summer, torn from their homes in the earth by the shrieking Santa Ana wind, now bounded out of the steep canyons and across the narrow highway, silver-gray in the headlights, a curiously melancholy sight, families of thistled skeletons like starved and harried refugees fleeing worse torment.†   (source)
  • It was salvaged at great cost by the refugees who fled from Solas.†   (source)
  • They were German refugees from Breslau, which had been tremendously bombed.†   (source)
  • The day belongs to the refugees and raid gangs.†   (source)
  • …lured the hopeful to the golden West, from the pioneer settlers who endured the horrors of the wagon trail to Chinese workers (once called coolies) and Irish laborers during the railroad building of the 1860s, to the Oklahoma dust-bowl refugees immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, to blue-collar workers pouring into the aerospace and defense industries of World War II and the Cold War, to blacks escaping the segregationist South, to Mexicans willing to pick the crops…†   (source)
  • The Whirling Dervishes of Konya have come to us as refugees from the Ottoman Empire, which has of late been the site of an unspeakable massacre of the Armenian people by the Sultan's army.†   (source)
  • The yard below was crowded with refugees and chaotic with their noises, but beyond the walls the rivers flowed clean and pure and endless.†   (source)
  • Stem and Nora's furniture was left behind for the renters, a family of Iraqi refugees sponsored by Nora's church.†   (source)
  • Even the most respectable citizens were now penniless refugees, their homes smoldering ruins and Confederate money now mere scraps of paper.†   (source)
  • They were a poor remnant of what had once been a thriving dwarven society, a band of refugees beaten and broken by the loss of their homeland and heritage.†   (source)
  • His ancestors were Huguenots, refugees of a chained and bloody Europe.†   (source)
  • Diamond told them that pirates, colonial settlers, and later on, Confederate refugees had made the old bridge and added to it at various points in time.†   (source)
  • The whole refugee thing.†   (source)
  • When we had to impress other armies-marauders, columns of refugees filing past one another, boy gangs following their martial arts teachers-I mounted and rode in front.†   (source)
  • From the time of the Red Alert, the highways had been jammed with carloads of refugees, seeking asylum they knew not where.†   (source)
  • He could still see Konrad's tired blue eyes, and the golden stubble on his chin, as they shook hands and parted in that ruined Prussian village, while the refugees streamed endlessly past.†   (source)
  • The man was a refugee Hungarian pastry cook talking shop, but there was your Mucho: thin-skinned.†   (source)
  • His patients included many old-time immigrants or more recent Jewish refugees.†   (source)
  • The summer population must be large and the roads and highways gorged with refugees from the sticky heat of Boston and New York.†   (source)
  • Then I would not be a refugee from a form of existence I find repugnant, and I would not be concerned whether or not a former associate had discovered my identity.†   (source)
  • A few had refugee relatives from Germany living in their homes.†   (source)
  • Like me, they were migrants from the east and refugees from their own community.†   (source)
  • You pitiful mob of sickly monkeys …. you sunken-chested, slack-bellied, drooling refugees from apron strings.†   (source)
  • His parents had been German Jewish refugees, Marxists, and it was not until 1946 that the family returned home, anxious to take part, whatever the personal cost, in the construction of Stalin's Germany.†   (source)
  • What I say is this, go to the refugee camp and tell those women to stop their nonsense.†   (source)
  • We'd be just refugees.†   (source)
  • But just at the moment of his darkest despair, this Polish refugee, Sobel, appeared one night from the street and begged for work.†   (source)
  • The refugee woman in the boat had also covered the little boy with her arm, which was no more use against the bullets than a sheet of paper.   (source)
  • He fancied that some plot might be in process of formation against the unhappy refugee.   (source)
    refugee = person who fled their homeland
  • Absently, she watches images of airlifted South Vietnamese refugees arriving in Guam.†   (source)
  • Residents were being referred to as refugees.†   (source)
  • But as a relative, you would be in a different line, ahead of ordinary refugees.†   (source)
  • Snub Todd and you'll look like a trailer-park refugee having a bad hair day.†   (source)
  • One way is for you to apply as a refugee.†   (source)
  • CIA data analysts have far more pressing things to look for than a band of refugee Unwinds.†   (source)
  • Once on the train, he glanced around, wondering if there were other refugees on the train.†   (source)
  • A troop of them pretending to be soldiers wasted my father and everybody in our refugee camp.†   (source)
  • She was knitting a tiny sweater, like the ones she still knitted for the Overseas Refugees.†   (source)
  • You're telling me that this refugee assistance program has nothing to do with your public image?†   (source)
  • But after a week the stream of refugees from that direction ceased and news dried up.†   (source)
  • He'd had two lives, one in Saigon and another in the refugee camp.†   (source)
  • "I don't know about any refugees," he said, "but I think I know the place you mean.†   (source)
  • Would the Thin People—the famine-victims and refugees—slip through the cracks in the doors?†   (source)
  • I sped downstairs expecting another sad and stammering refugee.†   (source)
  • We are going to Itang, to the refugee camp.†   (source)
  • It provided safe haven to thousands of German refugees fleeing bombed-out cities.†   (source)
  • Some of the hallway refugees had started catching rats in the downstairs lobby.†   (source)
  • We refugee passengers represented many nations and spoke many languages.†   (source)
  • Every single refugee was granted automatic citizenship by the authorities of 13.†   (source)
  • They drove on the back roads to avoid the chaos of refugees.†   (source)
  • He had lived his whole life in Pakistan in the Jalozai refugee camp where he'd been born.†   (source)
  • We'll be like refugees, or hermits, some unfortunate but necessary combination of the two.†   (source)
  • She walks to the far corner of the cafeteria, where a few tables of Erudite refugees sit.†   (source)
  • That was their first night in the refugee camp.†   (source)
  • He lives in a refugee camp near Peshawar.†   (source)
  • A squad of Peacekeepers checking for returning refugees.†   (source)
  • They were refugees from other countries.†   (source)
  • The cart stops before the gathered hoard of juvenile refugees.†   (source)
  • "You could go sit with them," I say, nodding toward the Erudite refugees.†   (source)
  • I did not want to live legally if it also meant living like a refugee.†   (source)
  • He'd taken in several fire refugees and was still housing the Chinese family.†   (source)
  • We found lodging in a student dormitory that had become a receiving center for refugees.†   (source)
  • It had taken four days for Salva to travel from the Ifo refugee camp to his new home in New York.†   (source)
  • The refugee camp at hang was filled with people of all ages—men, women, girls, small children….†   (source)
  • Father recounted that he and Hershel had joined a crowded trail of refugees heading north and east.†   (source)
  • By day the refugee camp ringing Wright-Patterson swims in a dense, choking fog.†   (source)
  • Our police were there, definitely Americans who were directing the stream of refugees.†   (source)
  • Gale and I drop our heads and shuffle along with the refugees.†   (source)
  • It struck me how I thought of the people who'd migrated to our floor as "refugees."†   (source)
  • That Snow will let refugees into the mansion?†   (source)
  • Two weeks after the 4th Wave, gathering survivors at a refugee camp about six kilometers from here.†   (source)
  • The local people who lived in the area did not like having the refugee camp nearby.†   (source)
  • Something tells me that not taking advantage of the flood of refugees is a mistake.†   (source)
  • Richard pointed back toward the Chinese family and refugees at his end of the hallway.†   (source)
  • She had not been in the refugee camp with him.†   (source)
  • There are supposed to be refugee camps in Kenya.†   (source)
  • Caught in the cross fire are the refugees, unarmed, disoriented, many wounded.†   (source)
  • Few of the refugees spoke English, so communication with the aid workers was often difficult.†   (source)
  • And the buses pulling in all night, every night, filled with refugees, filled with the walking dead.†   (source)
  • That's how it was: soldiers standing along three of the four walls, refugees in the middle.†   (source)
  • They would often sneak in and steal from the refugees.†   (source)
  • Yes, I can see the rebel army pouring into the Circle, driving the refugees back onto the avenues.†   (source)
  • You would think it would be empty, but it's packed with refugees.†   (source)
  • In the end, we look exactly like the refugees fleeing the rebels.†   (source)
  • On the next block, we encounter more terrified refugees, but few soldiers.†   (source)
  • A stint with Islamic Relief, working in refugee camps in Kurdistan.†   (source)
  • My head was in the closet, trying to find something to wear that didn't make me look like a refugee.†   (source)
  • Scott, I need you on the lamb—let some of the refugees peel potatoes.†   (source)
  • And don't you dare tell me she's just some random refugee.†   (source)
  • Refugees who have no home at all know that America is their land of dreams.†   (source)
  • The Hadawi family lived in Ein al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • But his parents really were alive, in a refugee camp in Tanzania.†   (source)
  • He was sent to a refugee camp in Upplands Väsby.†   (source)
  • He took them to the school in a nearby refugee camp.†   (source)
  • The generator is from the Danish Refugee Council.†   (source)
  • The consequences to the farmhouse and the refugees would be most severe.†   (source)
  • Her brother …. taken from a refugee camp to Wright-Patterson …. she escaped ….†   (source)
  • If all went well, the soldiers would assume they were just another pair of refugees.†   (source)
  • Why didn't he allow these refugees to disembark?†   (source)
  • That's St. Christopher, the guardian saint of refugees.†   (source)
  • More than a thousand refugees were now within sight of Bryn Shander.†   (source)
  • Also, we pay teachers in Afghan refugee camps to hold class where there aren't any schools.†   (source)
  • Oh, I should dearly like to be a refugee in Paris.†   (source)
  • There was no great flow of refugees from Dresden.†   (source)
  • Ervin, the 15s' goalie—a Bosnian refugee and another newcomer to the team—dove to the right.†   (source)
  • I casually try to turn the conversation toward what might be gnawing on the refugees on the road.†   (source)
  • "You're awfully picky for a refugee," said Enoch.†   (source)
  • Max opened his eyes and gazed at several people refugees— standing upon the rock ledge.†   (source)
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