Sample sentences for EXPATRIATE

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Definition

absent from one's native country

Some of us have to be content with the wives of the expatriate community.
David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly

expatriate = people absent from their home country

With men in tuxedos, and cappuccinos, and bad expatriate jazz.
David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
With cappuccinos, and men in tuxedos and bad expatriate jazz.
David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
They describe you as indigent expatriates, totally without funds, whom I generously treat at my clinic without charge.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
She also observed aid programs that spent primarily on expatriate staff and didn't know what they were doing.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
She began to socialize with other American expatriates.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
With many of these amiable colonists Mrs. Touchett was intimate; she shared their expatriation, their convictions, their pastimes, their ennui.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

The Des Moines expatriate in New York.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
There was a strong expatriate community whose primary purpose was to give the downtrodden and lost seekers new direction.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
More of an expatriate, I'd say.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
One of his major themes was "superfluous Jews," and he scribbled away at length about the matter of "population transfer" and "expatriation."
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

An expatriated newspaper man.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises
Through a chance encounter outside the United Nations in New York, he met a Burundian expatriate who was driving a cab in the city.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
With many of these amiable colonists Mrs. Touchett was intimate; she shared their expatriation, their convictions, their pastimes, their ennui.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2

Jackson was leaving a funeral in the Capitol Building on January 30, 1835, when a British expatriate fired at him twice.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
But it was staffed mainly by white, expatriate doctors.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
After school one day, Oscar's dad told him that the family's experiment in expatriate living was over.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
Even those who lived in America for decades often remained isolated, associating mainly with other expatriate Iranians.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
The expatriates weren't welcoming.
V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
An expatriate, living and working in Ethiopia these eight years.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

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