All 17 Uses of
migrant
in
The Grapes of Wrath
- HIGHWAY 661 is the main migrant road.†
Chpt 12
- THE CARS of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and then took the migrant way to the West.†
Chpt 17
- THE CARS of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and then took the migrant way to the West.†
Chpt 17
- They were not farm men any more, but migrant men.
Chpt 17 *migrant = (people who) move from one place to another
- But along the highway the cars of the migrant people crawled out like bugs, and the narrow concrete miles stretched ahead.†
Chpt 17
- And the dispossessed, the migrants, flowed into California, two hundred and fifty thousand, and three hundred thousand.†
Chpt 19
- THE MOVING, questing people were migrants now.†
Chpt 21
- They were migrants.†
Chpt 21
- 1 In the West there was panic when the migrants multiplied on the highways.†
Chpt 21
- Men who had never wanted anything very much saw the flare of want in the eyes of the migrants.†
Chpt 21
- And the migrants streamed in on the highways and their hunger was in their eyes, and their need was in their eyes.†
Chpt 21
- THE MIGRANT PEOPLE, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure, and they were hungry for amusement.†
Chpt 23
- The migrant people looked humbly for pleasure on the roads.†
Chpt 23
- Now the cars of the guests began to arrive, small farmers and their families, migrants from other camps.†
Chpt 24
- The guests were moving in through the gateway, families from the farms, migrants from the ditch camps.†
Chpt 24
- When the first rain started, the migrant people huddled in their tents, saying, It'll soon be over, and asking, How long's it likely to go on?†
Chpt 29
- The sheriffs swore in new deputies and ordered new rifles; and the comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(migrant) a person (or animal) that moves from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally -- sometimes for work