Sample Sentences for
migrate
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    Our circus doesn't migrate.  (source)
    migrate = moved from one place to another
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    If I didn't feel like my heart had migrated to my throat, I would ask her what it signifies.  (source)
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    The Barber ladies were rumored to be Republicans, having migrated from Clanton, Alabama, in 1911.  (source)
    migrated = moved
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    I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War.  (source)
    migration = movement from one place to another
    standard suffix: 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.
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    In the 1950s, thirteen of every one hundred Kentucky residents migrated out of the state.  (source)
    migrated = moved
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    She thought she saw him ten minutes later, but it was only a migrating sparrow.  (source)
    migrating = moving from one place to another
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    This fueled poverty, civil wars, and the resulting economic crisis that is now pushing so many to migrate to the United States.  (source)
    migrate = move from one place to another
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    Wars, migrations, natural disasters—these were mere preludes to the Mormon story.†  (source)
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    Every nerve in my body migrates to where he touches.†  (source)
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    He needs to be there by 7:30 for the return migration of the Bluebird.  (source)
    migration = movement from one place to another
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    By this time the kisses had migrated from behind my ear to my neck.  (source)
    migrated = moved (from one place to another)
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    Perhaps it was only migrating, or had been chased out of its own region by some bird of prey.  (source)
    migrating = moving from one place to another
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    Every spring they migrate up from calving grounds in Hawaii.  (source)
    migrate = move from one place to another
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