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someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people- We're asking for humanitarian aid to assist and resettle the refugees.
refugees = people who fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation
- They are settled in a refugee camp near the border.
- She was a Tutsi refugee from Rwanda.
- Already burdened with nearly two million Afghan refugees, Pakistan had closed its borders to Afghans in January of that year.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Mattie used to talk about the Underground Railroad, by which she meant these churches and the people who carried refugees between them,Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees
- He told people that he was a refugee from Tokyo whose relatives were all dead, a story that, in postwar Japan, was as common as white rice.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- Here we were, like fleeing refugees, trekking in from some ruined zone of war.Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
- Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Instead, the war raged on, this time between Afghans, the Mujahedin, against the Soviet puppet government of Najibullah, and Afghan refugees kept flocking to Pakistan.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- Maybe she saw me as a needy refugee from the warJerry Spinelli -- Milkweed
- Refugees from the now occupied blocks are streaming toward the Capitol's center.Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
- He fancied that some plot might be in process of formation against the unhappy refugee.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- They opened the doors of their homes, schools and mosques to the refugees.Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
- Rowan welcomes refugees and new arrivals every day.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean.George Orwell -- 1984
- She wore the same brown-checked Chinese dress until the Refugee Welcome Society gave her two handme-down dresses, all too large in sizes for American women.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- As refugees from the French Revolution and from the slave revolts in the French West Indies poured into Philadelphia, French fashion and language became very popular.Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
- I wanted to say, Because I just want to be normal for a little while—not a refugee girl looking for her mother, but a regular girl paying a summer visit to Tiburon, South Carolina.Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
- I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
- The family are refugees and have no medical records.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
refugee = relating to people who fled their homeland
refugee = someone who has fled their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence
refugees = people who fled their homeland
refugees = people fleeing their homeland (in this case, fleeing slavery in the South)
refugee = someone who fled their homeland
refugees = people fleeing their homeland
refugee = someone who fled their homeland
refugees = people fleeing their homeland
refugee = someone who fled their homeland
refugees = people who have fled
refugee = person who fled their homeland
refugees = people who left their homeland because of fear of persecution or violence
refugees = people who fled their homeland
refugees = people who fled their homeland
refugee = someone who fled their homeland
refugees = people who fled their homeland
refugee = someone fleeing their homeland
refugees = people who fled their homeland
refugees = people who fled their homeland
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