Sample Sentences for
immigrate
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    At that time, most of the people who immigrated to the United States came from Latin America and Asia.
    immigrated = came to live in (from another country)
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    Over 1 in 4 Californians immigrated from another country.
    immigrated = came to live in a new country
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    Mexican-born immigrants account for over a quarter of all foreign born people living in the United States.
    immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
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    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.
    immigrated = came to live in a new country
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    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.
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    You have made me, the son of poor immigrants, rich, powerful, and respected.  (source)
    immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
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    I talked enough and stole enough and sold enough to buy a steamship ticket, and I joined the multitudes going to America. The immigration officer said, “What is your name?”  (source)
    immigration = (describing the officer as responsible for) movement of people who come to live in a new country
    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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    For the hundredth time, I cursed my immigrant origins.  (source)
    immigrant = person who came from another county to live
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    A series of circumstances, including her father's death, eventually forced my grandmother to immigrate to the United States to a company-owned farm labor camp in Arvin, California.  (source)
    immigrate = move (to a new country)
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    Here's something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down 1-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car, you might get stopped.†  (source)
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    For the immigrants of Europe, a dream dared and won true.  (source)
    immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
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    Then I advise you to get a good immigration lawyer.†  (source)
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    the whole complex of structures and gates and panels that were built, hand-built, by one man, alone, an immigrant from somewhere near Naples,  (source)
    immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
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