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  • Maybe she saw me as a needy refugee from the war   (source)
    refugee = someone who fled their homeland
  • The family are refugees and have no medical records.   (source)
    refugees = people who fled their homeland
  • Here we were, like fleeing refugees, trekking in from some ruined zone of war.   (source)
    refugees = people fleeing their homeland
  • For many months now she had been a refugee, traveling west from Saigon with her two aunts.   (source)
    refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
  • All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean.   (source)
    refugees = people who fled their homeland
  • 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.   (source)
    refugee = someone who fled their homeland
  • Often, growers evicted the strikers from their labor camps, forcing many to live together in makeshift refugee camps, sometimes on farms on the outskirts of towns.†   (source)
  • Welcome, Refugees from Ember!†   (source)
  • Tents and cardboard shelters lined the streets, and the public parks I saw seemed to have been converted into refugee camps.†   (source)
  • It's maddening, for there seems to be no end in sight to this relentless underground railroad of refugees.†   (source)
  • These made baby garments for the Armenians, said to be starving, and for something called Overseas Refugees.†   (source)
  • The children of the young mother refugee, Vicky, on the couch in the middle of the hallway, began to cry.†   (source)
  • But not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so, a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up.†   (source)
  • You see, the Jewish refugees had been through terrible times; they were traumatized and disoriented by the loss of their homes and families.†   (source)
  • His music was causing lines of bugs to leave the strawberry patch in every direction, like refugees fleeing a fire.†   (source)
  • The refugee camp at hang was filled with people of all ages—men, women, girls, small children....But most of the refugees were boys and young men who had run away from their villages when the war came.†   (source)
  • In those first years the roads were peopled with refugees shrouded up in their clothing.†   (source)
  • He imagines two or three dozen listeners up and down the coast—maybe more tuning in out at sea, captain's sets on free ships hauling tomatoes or refugees or guns—Englishmen who expect the numbers but not the music, who must wonder: Why?†   (source)
  • It looked like pictures she'd seen of Hooverville or some makeshift refugee settlement.†   (source)
  • There were all sorts of draft refusers in Vancouver, and refugees from the army, and lots of their families treated them like heroes, or at least accepted what they did, and sent letters and presents.†   (source)
  • The desks and chairs that had been brought back to this makeshift school were for little children, not high school refugees.†   (source)
  • There was no official government-sponsored refugee program to relocate Vietnamese children—not before the fall of Saigon in April 1975—but certain churches were active in Vietnam throughout the course of the war.†   (source)
  • He doesn't talk much about the refugee camp, other than that his mother cut hair, his older brother raised fighting fish, his married sister brought back live crabs and worms for him to eat whenever she could sneak a visit from her own camp.†   (source)
  • It was a home for refugee kids?†   (source)
  • The Illuminati went deep underground, where they began mixing with other refugee groups fleeing the Catholic purges-mystics, alchemists, occultists, Muslims, Jews.†   (source)
  • And soon, it will be the sanctuary of every Red refugee fleeing the king's new punishments.†   (source)
  • That Lola, who was fifteen, and the nine-year-old twins, Jackson and Pierrot, were refugees from a bitter domestic civil war should have mattered more to Briony.†   (source)
  • Refugees — people trying to escape the Nazis — started appearing at the Bradys' door, asking for money, food and shelter.†   (source)
  • When they fought, Estha called Rahel a Refugee Stick Insect.†   (source)
  • We had several months' worth of supplies—or less, depending upon how many more refugees wandered into camp.†   (source)
  • One of them had written an essay about being a refugee from Laos.†   (source)
  • The Polish government was intent on proving that it was as antisemitic as the Nazis and so refused to grant the refugees permission to reenter their homeland.†   (source)
  • Numbly, like a refugee, I waited under the sleazy fluorescents as the clerk looked at the card at a number of different angles and in different lights, at length finding it genuine.†   (source)
  • He tells of another refugee: the baby Jesus, whose family had to flee the land of Israel and go to Egypt after an angel told Joseph they were in danger.†   (source)
  • One of my teachers was a Cuban refugee named Mr. Enrfquez.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that it was actually taking place in our country.†   (source)
  • Every chair was filled, every table occupied, mostly by men, and the floors were littered with packs, weapons, bedrolls, antiquated comm equipment, ration boxes, and all of the other detritus of an army of refugees...or perhaps a refugee army.†   (source)
  • Introduce me to your fellow refugees, then.†   (source)
  • As a teenager, Biermann went east, against the stream of refugees going the other way to West Germany.†   (source)
  • Why, the embassies were surrounded these days, and all the recent refugees had been intercepted and put in prison where most of them had disappeared forever.†   (source)
  • Out west she meets new people, encounters a completely alien but inviting landscape, becomes the de facto mother of a three-year-old Native American girl she calls Turtle, and finds herself involved in the shelter movement for Central American refugees.†   (source)
  • On the edge of Haarlem was a truck farm that hid refugees for short periods of time.†   (source)
  • There's nothing like living as a refugee in one's own country to turn a generous soul into a hard little fist.†   (source)
  • On Mykonos he had preferred the outskirts of the migrant camps, and he had grown accustomed to a degree of independence from their fellow refugees.†   (source)
  • I learned that he is a Muslim, a Bosnian, a survivor of the Balkans conflict, who came to Britain as a fifteen-year-old refugee.†   (source)
  • The top deck has been turned into an open-air refugee camp.†   (source)
  • One million Afghans fled the country as refugees.†   (source)
  • We've got that refugee from the Home for Old Actors on our side.†   (source)
  • When he was a young man he would stop in the Parish Cafe before coming home, and this was where he perfected his chess game with his father-in-law's cronies and some Caribbean refugees.†   (source)
  • As theRed Boar rounded the rocky spit of land, a white beach was revealed at the apex of the cove, upon which were assembled the refugees from Palancar Valley.†   (source)
  • His face, with its exaggerated shadows and planes of light, looked alien and pained, like a refugees.†   (source)
  • They thought to burden us with refugees.†   (source)
  • Another rain refugee flees south.†   (source)
  • It has recruited refugees and asylum-seekers from Laos and Bosnia.†   (source)
  • All around them were refugees from San Francisco.†   (source)
  • One of these was the Canadian-born poet, Lorenzo, moon-faced, with much curly hair; and his girl, a refugee from the Texas backwater, scissor-faced, with much straight hair, and a thumb-chewing giggle; and their sidekick, older, lantern-jawed, with tortured lips, who scowled when he was pleased—which was rare—and smiled a pallid smile when he was frightened—which was almost always—so that he enjoyed the reputation of being extremely good-natured.†   (source)
  • The funding cut forced Marie Stopes to drop a planned outreach program to help Somali and Rwandan refugees.†   (source)
  • No, no, no. That girl came here as a refugee, just like the rest of us.†   (source)
  • And so Cedric races around the echoing yard, searching the labyrinth of dorms for a few such refugees-namely, Mark McIntosh and his twin sister, Belinda.†   (source)
  • The boy stumbling through refugee camps, no parents, his brother dead, taught violence in an underground school.†   (source)
  • Those who were already refugees—those who had earlier fled Cambridge, Roxbury, or Milton for the presumed safety of Boston—knew what it was to abandon everything and find themselves dependent on charity.†   (source)
  • Behind his words there was more than joy at seeing children run and grass grow; there was a deep understanding of the plight of a refugee from a Communist country where, the senator was convinced, no grass grew or children ran.†   (source)
  • They were German refugees from Breslau, which had been tremendously bombed.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she went to houses where people were dying, and often, especially in Cange among the water refugees, these were children in the throes of one or another of the diarrheal diseases.†   (source)
  • When we had to impress other armies-marauders, columns of refugees filing past one another, boy gangs following their martial arts teachers-I mounted and rode in front.†   (source)
  • I knew he was a refugee because I'd heard his accent on the few occasions when someone he knew, also from that other world, would pause for a moment at his table.†   (source)
  • It was salvaged at great cost by the refugees who fled from Solas.†   (source)
  • Thousands-perhaps millions-of refugees from the Afghanistan war had also poured into the city.†   (source)
  • A shout from other refugees, fleeing too urgently to stop?†   (source)
  • The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees — not to respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory.†   (source)
  • The yard below was crowded with refugees and chaotic with their noises, but beyond the walls the rivers flowed clean and pure and endless.†   (source)
  • I was on duty and thought it was a straightforward refugee case, so I took Bjurman with me as legal advisor.†   (source)
  • The day belongs to the refugees and raid gangs.†   (source)
  • She could have zipped through any number of drive-through InstaStores, but she preferred the little deli on the corner of West Seventy-eighth—despite, or perhaps because of the fact that it was owned and run by Francois, a rude, snake-eyed refugee who'd fled to America after the Social Reform Army had overthrown the French government some forty years before.†   (source)
  • Dempsey was offered a tempting job—establishing a hospital for Palestinian refugees on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives—but the Mortensons decided it was time for their children to experience America.†   (source)
  • From the beginning, the paradisiacal image of California lured the hopeful to the golden West, from the pioneer settlers who endured the horrors of the wagon trail to Chinese workers (once called coolies) and Irish laborers during the railroad building of the 1860s, to the Oklahoma dust-bowl refugees immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, to blue-collar workers pouring into the aerospace and defense industries of World War II and the Cold War, to blacks escaping the segregationist South, to Mexicans willing to pick the crops of agribusiness, to youths yearning for the lives glimpsed in movies with Natalie Wood and James Dean.†   (source)
  • A refugee.†   (source)
  • It was as though the tenants had vanished, leaving the houses silent with all windows shaded, refugees from a rising flood.†   (source)
  • The Whirling Dervishes of Konya have come to us as refugees from the Ottoman Empire, which has of late been the site of an unspeakable massacre of the Armenian people by the Sultan's army.†   (source)
  • AmaMfengu, who were not originally Xhosa-speakers, were refugees from the iMfecane and were forced to do jobs that no other African would do.†   (source)
  • I AM A POLITICAL REFUGEE FROM CUBA.†   (source)
  • I think of women naming the atrocities committed against them by the Taliban in Afghanistan or women telling of the systematic rapes during the Bosnian war or just recently in Sri Lanka after the tsunami—women lining up in refugee camps to name their nightmares and losses and needs.†   (source)
  • The butcher ran to the edge of the village and shouted to the stream of refugees.†   (source)
  • The occasional German patrols who idly surveyed the refugees paid them no particular attention.†   (source)
  • They were a poor remnant of what had once been a thriving dwarven society, a band of refugees beaten and broken by the loss of their homeland and heritage.†   (source)
  • You pitiful mob of sickly monkeys ....you sunken-chested, slack-bellied, drooling refugees from apron strings.†   (source)
  • Great bristling balls of tumbleweed, robbed of their green by the merciless Western sun, cracked from their roots by the withering dryness of the California summer, torn from their homes in the earth by the shrieking Santa Ana wind, now bounded out of the steep canyons and across the narrow highway, silver-gray in the headlights, a curiously melancholy sight, families of thistled skeletons like starved and harried refugees fleeing worse torment.†   (source)
  • Clay Whitaker is chasing me on my way to first period on Thursday, hair as disheveled as his clothes, looking every bit a refugee from the Island of Misfit Boys.†   (source)
  • In these houses lived Jews, Irish, Germans, and some Spanish Civil War refugee families that had fled the new Franco regime before the onset of the Second World War.†   (source)
  • Even the most respectable citizens were now penniless refugees, their homes smoldering ruins and Confederate money now mere scraps of paper.†   (source)
  • Diamond told them that pirates, colonial settlers, and later on, Confederate refugees had made the old bridge and added to it at various points in time.†   (source)
  • His ancestors were Huguenots, refugees of a chained and bloody Europe.†   (source)
  • Stem and Nora's furniture was left behind for the renters, a family of Iraqi refugees sponsored by Nora's church.†   (source)
  • They languished in the refugee camps—Khan Yunis, Shatila, Ein al-Hilweh, Yarmouk, Balata, Jenin, Tulkarm, and dozens more—and dreamed of their olive groves and lemon trees.†   (source)
  • We'd be just refugees.†   (source)
  • The summer population must be large and the roads and highways gorged with refugees from the sticky heat of Boston and New York.†   (source)
  • His parents had been German Jewish refugees, Marxists, and it was not until 1946 that the family returned home, anxious to take part, whatever the personal cost, in the construction of Stalin's Germany.†   (source)
  • The man was a refugee Hungarian pastry cook talking shop, but there was your Mucho: thin-skinned.†   (source)
  • Then I would not be a refugee from a form of existence I find repugnant, and I would not be concerned whether or not a former associate had discovered my identity.†   (source)
  • His patients included many old-time immigrants or more recent Jewish refugees.†   (source)
  • Like me, they were migrants from the east and refugees from their own community.†   (source)
  • He could still see Konrad's tired blue eyes, and the golden stubble on his chin, as they shook hands and parted in that ruined Prussian village, while the refugees streamed endlessly past.†   (source)
  • From the time of the Red Alert, the highways had been jammed with carloads of refugees, seeking asylum they knew not where.†   (source)
  • What I say is this, go to the refugee camp and tell those women to stop their nonsense.†   (source)
  • But just at the moment of his darkest despair, this Polish refugee, Sobel, appeared one night from the street and begged for work.†   (source)
  • The refugee woman in the boat had also covered the little boy with her arm, which was no more use against the bullets than a sheet of paper.   (source)
  • He fancied that some plot might be in process of formation against the unhappy refugee.   (source)
    refugee = person who fled their homeland
  • Absently, she watches images of airlifted South Vietnamese refugees arriving in Guam.†   (source)
  • Residents were being referred to as refugees.†   (source)
  • But as a relative, you would be in a different line, ahead of ordinary refugees.†   (source)
  • Snub Todd and you'll look like a trailer-park refugee having a bad hair day.†   (source)
  • By day the refugee camp ringing Wright-Patterson swims in a dense, choking fog.†   (source)
  • One way is for you to apply as a refugee.†   (source)
  • She was knitting a tiny sweater, like the ones she still knitted for the Overseas Refugees.†   (source)
  • In the entry hall, there were grown men sleeping on benches, like refugees in a railway station.†   (source)
  • I was the only child of two teenagers, both refugees who'd met in the stacks where I'd grown up.†   (source)
  • "I don't know about any refugees," he said, "but I think I know the place you mean.†   (source)
  • You're telling me that this refugee assistance program has nothing to do with your public image?†   (source)
  • CIA data analysts have far more pressing things to look for than a band of refugee Unwinds.†   (source)
  • I sped downstairs expecting another sad and stammering refugee.†   (source)
  • They were Vietnamese orphans; they were refugee children.†   (source)
  • For a long time, South Africa refused to take in any more Jewish refugees.†   (source)
  • Would the Thin People—the famine-victims and refugees—slip through the cracks in the doors?†   (source)
  • I did not want to live legally if it also meant living like a refugee.†   (source)
  • We'll be like refugees, or hermits, some unfortunate but necessary combination of the two.†   (source)
  • I remembered the streams of refugees I'd walked with through Washington.†   (source)
  • Every single refugee was granted automatic citizenship by the authorities of 13.†   (source)
  • They drove on the back roads to avoid the chaos of refugees.†   (source)
  • Members of the Clarkston refugee community were taking their afternoon strolls around the track.†   (source)
  • We refugee passengers represented many nations and spoke many languages.†   (source)
  • He had lived his whole life in Pakistan in the Jalozai refugee camp where he'd been born.†   (source)
  • But after a week the stream of refugees from that direction ceased and news dried up.†   (source)
  • "You could go sit with them," I say, nodding toward the Erudite refugees.†   (source)
  • The local people who lived in the area did not like having the refugee camp nearby.†   (source)
  • It had taken four days for Salva to travel from the Ifo refugee camp to his new home in New York.†   (source)
  • Ervin, the 15s' goalie—a Bosnian refugee and another newcomer to the team—dove to the right.†   (source)
  • He lives in a refugee camp near Peshawar.†   (source)
  • Gale and I drop our heads and shuffle along with the refugees.†   (source)
  • Father recounted that he and Hershel had joined a crowded trail of refugees heading north and east.†   (source)
  • He's my ...I met him in the refugee camp.†   (source)
  • She walks to the far corner of the cafeteria, where a few tables of Erudite refugees sit.†   (source)
  • He'd had two lives, one in Saigon and another in the refugee camp.†   (source)
  • Our police were there, definitely Americans who were directing the stream of refugees.†   (source)
  • Once on the train, he glanced around, wondering if there were other refugees on the train.†   (source)
  • The cart stops before the gathered hoard of juvenile refugees.†   (source)
  • They were refugees from other countries.†   (source)
  • Some of the hallway refugees had started catching rats in the downstairs lobby.†   (source)
  • Two weeks after the 4th Wave, gathering survivors at a refugee camp about six kilometers from here.†   (source)
  • She envisioned a simple cleaning business for homes and offices that would employ refugee mothers.†   (source)
  • We found lodging in a student dormitory that had become a receiving center for refugees.†   (source)
  • We are going to Itang, to the refugee camp.†   (source)
  • Du made it out of the refugee camp, and his brother didn't.†   (source)
  • You would think it would be empty, but it's packed with refugees.†   (source)
  • A squad of Peacekeepers checking for returning refugees.†   (source)
  • Richard pointed back toward the Chinese family and refugees at his end of the hallway.†   (source)
  • The field was the crossroads of the entire refugee community.†   (source)
  • She had not been in the refugee camp with him.†   (source)
  • There are supposed to be refugee camps in Kenya.†   (source)
  • In the end, we look exactly like the refugees fleeing the rebels.†   (source)
  • They would often sneak in and steal from the refugees.†   (source)
  • He'd taken in several fire refugees and was still housing the Chinese family.†   (source)
  • He took a job at Refugee Family Services mostly because it was available.†   (source)
  • A troop of them pretending to be soldiers wasted my father and everybody in our refugee camp.†   (source)
  • It struck me how I thought of the people who'd migrated to our floor as "refugees."†   (source)
  • On the next block, we encounter more terrified refugees, but few soldiers.†   (source)
  • That was their first night in the refugee camp.†   (source)
  • Few of the refugees spoke English, so communication with the aid workers was often difficult.†   (source)
  • AT FIRST GLANCE, Chike Chime appeared a typical, newly arrived Clarkston refugee.†   (source)
  • That's how it was: soldiers standing along three of the four walls, refugees in the middle.†   (source)
  • That Snow will let refugees into the mansion?†   (source)
  • The police were in no mood for a lesson on constitutional law from a Sudanese refugee.†   (source)
  • And the buses pulling in all night, every night, filled with refugees, filled with the walking dead.†   (source)
  • Some refugee advocates in the crowd began to attack the residents as callous, and even as racist.†   (source)
  • Yes, I can see the rebel army pouring into the Circle, driving the refugees back onto the avenues.†   (source)
  • MANDELA ZIATY DIDN'T like thinking of himself as a refugee.†   (source)
  • Something tells me that not taking advantage of the flood of refugees is a mistake.†   (source)
  • Caught in the cross fire are the refugees, unarmed, disoriented, many wounded.†   (source)
  • The boys at the other end of the field were members of an all-refugee soccer team called the Fugees.†   (source)
  • If Jordan assumed Chime was a recently arrived refugee, this inquiry might have startled him.†   (source)
  • Like many refugee parents I met in Clarkston, Generose was eager to meet an actual American.†   (source)
  • The shooting pointed up an unpleasant reality for refugee boys around Clarkston.†   (source)
  • "Refugee parents ran to get their kids enrolled," he said, laughing at the memory.†   (source)
  • "Overwhelmingly," he said, "the refugee community kept saying 'We need soccer.'†   (source)
  • Jordan didn't like Scipio's approach to dealing with refugees either.†   (source)
  • Refugees is like me and you—they're people," Swaney continued.†   (source)
  • Refugees, to his mind, weren't American.†   (source)
  • For reasons only he knew, Lee Swaney just didn't want refugees playing soccer in Milam Park.†   (source)
  • African refugees wanted cassava powder to make foofoo.†   (source)
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