All 16 Uses
immigrate
in
Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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- The professor said most of them are immigrants.†
p. 114.4 *immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Please, you were once poor immigrants yourself ... She did not think that anything she could say would convince such heartless men, who would let their workers stand out in the cold for three months.†
p. 134.6
- Is it because he thinks of me as a friend of Jane's, and therefore practically her equal, not just another immigrant who still has the dust of Ellis Island on her shoes?†
p. 155.3immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- And she feels left out and jealous just because she doesn't understand two immigrant girls speaking Yiddish?†
p. 158.2
- The woman fixed Yetta with a glare that seemed to scorn holey shoes, Jews, Italians, immigrants, and anyone else without marble foyers.†
p. 160.4immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- "Immigrants," Father said, biting down on his cigar.†
p. 195.9
- Secretly, Yetta wondered if she should copy Jane, but that would probably look silly, an immigrant shtetl girl putting on airs.†
p. 210.4immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- There would be an interview, and Jane would have to lie a little about how a girl like herself had reached such reduced circumstances that she was applying to be a governess for immigrants' daughters.†
p. 227.7immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Too late, Bella remembered that Jane really was a rich girl who still probably expected to marry a millionaire, not an immigrant chauffeur.†
p. 233.6immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- Then, to prove that socialist, suffragist immigrants could also have manners, she added, "Jane's told us a lot about you."†
p. 248.4immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- They don't want female immigrants voting.†
p. 250.1
- But even wealthy Jewish immigrants like the Blancks patronized few of the same stores and restaurants and ice cream parlors as Jane's former friends; they didn't go to any of the same resorts or tourist hotels or beaches.†
p. 255.2
- That she'd work as a servant for immigrants?†
p. 257.6
- Yetta felt a surge of gratitude for the firemen who angled the net so carefully, who ran to the exact right spot to catch two immigrant workers falling from the sky.†
p. 298.8immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- I'm not some ignorant immigrant shirtwaist girl, frightened out of her wits.†
p. 299.6
- And it seemed to Bella that she could feel the sorrow spreading, to millionaires in their mansions and to women in fur coats who'd walked a picket line beside a hungry girl they now wondered about, to college girls who'd gone to jail for an immigrant girl's job, to young, dreamy-eyed men who'd bought a strike-edition newspaper from a pretty girl they now remembered as if she were their first, true, lost love.†
p. 315.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(immigrate) come to live in a new country
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.