All 10 Uses
refugee
in
The Kite Runner
(Edited)
- He was taking us to Jalalabad, about 170 kilometers southeast of Kabul, where his brother, Toor, who had a bigger truck with a second convoy of refugees, was waiting to drive us across the Khyber Pass and into Peshawar.
p. 111.7refugees = people who fled their homeland
- ONCE MY EYES ADJUSTED to the dark, I counted about thirty refugees in that basement.
p. 120.1
- One of the refugees asked Baba why he wasn't joining them.
p. 120.1
- Through the upside down V between his legs, I saw the truck idling on the side of the road, the other refugees climbing down the rear ladder.
p. 123.9
- 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.
p. 184.1 *refugees = people fleeing their homeland
- Most of those people, he said, were either dead or in refugee camps in Pakistan.
p. 244.2refugee = related to people who fled their homeland
- Volunteer at a refugee camp.
p. 331.5
- Kids get displaced in refugee camps, or parents just abandon them because they can't take care of them.
p. 337.5refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
- I want to scream again, and I remember the last time I felt this way, riding with Baba in the tank of the fuel truck, buried in the dark with the other refugees.
p. 345.1refugees = people who fled their homeland
- The small hospital had stood near the Afghan-Pakistani border and had a small surgical unit that treated Afghan refugees with land mine injuries.
p. 363.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(refugee) someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)