All 14 Uses of

immigrate

in

Underworld, by DeLillo

Strangers would come to wash his genitals, immigrants from countries on the travel channel, they had lives of their own that he could not imagine a single minute of.†

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country

the whole complex of structures and gates and panels that were built, hand-built, by one man, alone, an immigrant from somewhere near Naples,
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immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country

She stood at parapets and wondered who had worked the stones, shaped these details of the suavest nuance, chevrons and rosettes, urns on balustrades, the classical swags of fruit, the scroll brackets supporting a balcony, and she thought they must have been immigrants, Italian stone carvers probably, unremembered, artists anonymous of the early century, buried in the sky.†

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country

She walked down to the market past another new gallery, there were galleries and shops now but the cast-iron facades were safe from the wreckers, that was the main thing—the old factories where immigrants made buttons and suits, women and girls working eighteen-hour days, and she bought a box of sugar in the market before she forgets and ten months go by and Teresa turns up again.†

And a sad-eyed guy with a honker nose and the leaden aspect of an immigrant in a borrowed suit.†

immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country

Albert used to tell her in his slightly didactic way that the Italians of his experience, his Harlem and Bronx upbringing, his Calabrian heritage, tended to be wary of certain kinds of accomplishment, as immigrants, people who needed protection against the cold hand of the culture, who needed sons and daughters and sisters and others because who else could they trust with their broken English, their ten thousand uprooted tales, and he came home one day, the thirteen-year-old son, and saw his parents huddled on the sofa in one of those dolorous souther†

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country

They gave him the Negro neighborhoods and Chinese laundries and the immigrants from everywhere, just off the boat.†

All she knew about the towers was that the man worked alone, an immigrant, for many years, a sort of unimaginable number of years, and used whatever objects he could forage and scrounge.†

immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country

She'd been accused at various times of being a lesbian, a socialist, a communist, a dope addict, a divorcee, a Jew, a Catholic, a Negro, an immigrant and an unwed mother.†

She made an official salary, the money she reported, answering the phone for a local lawyer and typing wills and deeds and leases, mostly, and immigration forms, and listening to the lawyer's funny stories.†

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act

But they spoke it, of course, these men, these immigrants or sons of immigrants, the hordes who threaten society's peaceful sleep, who are always showing up and moving in.†

immigrants = people who came to live in a new country

But they spoke it, of course, these men, these immigrants or sons of immigrants, the hordes who threaten society's peaceful sleep, who are always showing up and moving in.†

Definition:

come to live in a new country