Sample sentences for IMMIGRATE

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Definition

come to live in a new country

Much more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.

About 1 of each 8 people in the United States immigrated from somewhere else.

immigrated = came to live (from another country)

About 1 in 4 people who live in the United States are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Over 1 in 4 Californians immigrated from another country.
Today, most of the people who immigrate to the United States are from Latin America and Asia.

immigrate = come to live in (from another country)

Mexican-born immigrants account for over a quarter of all foreign born people living in the United States.
About half of the children in California are living with parents who immigrated from another country. Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Texas all have over a third of their children living with foreign-born parents.
The immigrant share of the United States Population climbed from less than 5% in 1970 to over 13% today.
Between 1860 and 1920 the share of the United States population that immigrated from another country was between 13 and 15%. Then it declined to less than 5% in 1970. Today it is over 13% again.
If they are not in order, or if they do not happen to have their papers with them, the immigration officials send them back to Mexico.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

immigration = related to a process where people are approved for coming into a country

(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.)

You have made me, the son of poor immigrants, rich, powerful, and respected.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country

But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants.
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country

It was the first time he had moved outside the umbra of his fellow immigrants.
Junot Diaz -- Drown

immigrants = people who came from elsewhere to live in the country

We are a land of immigrants:
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe

immigrants = people who come to live in a new country

Mexicans along the border, he notices, are quick to proclaim their right to immigrate to the United States.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

immigrate = come to live in a new country

Like so many other immigrants to America in those years, theirs was a leap of faith.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country

the fact that his parents immigrated from Tarrytown, New York, not Tientsin, China.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

immigrated = came to live from

An immigrant goes to America
Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim -- Westside Story

immigrant = person who comes to live in a new country

the whole complex of structures and gates and panels that were built, hand-built, by one man, alone, an immigrant from somewhere near Naples,
Don DeLillo -- Underworld

immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country

For the hundredth time, I cursed my immigrant origins.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

immigrant = person who came from another county to live

My parents had immigrated to Chile from Krakow when I was very young,
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

immigrated = moved to (a new country)

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