All 9 Uses of
refugee
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Anyway, what I gathered was that your friend was in a lorry full of refugees, twenty-three of them, all headed for Peshawar.
p. 206..9refugees = people fleeing their homeland
- Laila pictured herself in a refugee camp, a stark field with thousands of sheets of plastic strung to makeshift poles flapping in the cold, stinging wind.
p. 219..1refugee = related to people who fled their homeland
- Already burdened with nearly two million Afghan refugees, Pakistan had closed its borders to Afghans in January of that year.
p. 260..3 *refugees = people who fled their homeland
- Most of them had been raised-some even born-in refugee camps along the Pakistani border, and in Pakistani madrasas, where they were schooled in Shari'a by mullahs.
p. 273..9refugee = related to people who fled their homeland
- They had stayed awhile at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Tariq said, tapping ash into a saucer.
p. 334..2
- There was a leafless tree he climbed every day, where he straddled a branch and watched the refugees lying about in the sun, their sores and stumps in plain view.
p. 334..9refugees = people who fled their homeland
- All around the refugee town, the wind made the tents flap.
p. 335..2refugee = related to people who fled their homeland
- Shortly before they cross the border into Herat, they pass an Afghan refugee camp.
p. 393..2
- Many of the drawings depict tanks running over huts, men brandishing AK-47s, refugee camp tents, scenes of jihad.
p. 412..6
Definition:
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(refugee) someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people