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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
- 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
(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.)
(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.)
(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.)