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refugee
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Hollow City
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- And then he ran off and left us to hide in that house like refugees while he galavanted around America, playing hero!†
p. 40.3 *refugees = people who fled their homeland
- Which explains why you're traveling in the degraded style of refugees?†
p. 82.5
- In 1940, though, in a Britain convulsed by war, London was a world away: the roads and rails might be clogged by refugees, or ruined by bombs, or monopolized by military convoys, any of which would cost us time Miss Peregrine didn't have to spare.†
p. 107.9
- Fiona was a refugee from Ireland, he said, where she'd been growing food for the people in her village during the famine of the 1840s—until she was accused of being a witch and chased out.†
p. 195.3refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
- "You're awfully picky for a refugee," said Enoch.†
p. 208.6
- They were refugees from the bombs, and this was their shelter.†
p. 291.8refugees = people who fled their homeland
- The crowd of sheltering refugees was gone now; the station nearly deserted.†
p. 389.1
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)