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- Where most of the apartment building was empty, our entire floor was still there, along with the refugees, and only because we'd stayed and had the generator and heating.†
p. 125.2refugees = people who fled their homeland
- It struck me how I thought of the people who'd migrated to our floor as "refugees."†
p. 125.4
- We'd added three more refugees from people abandoning their apartments to come to our floor, while Rex and Ryan had left for the emergency shelters to try and find a way out.†
p. 145.4
- He'd taken in several fire refugees and was still housing the Chinese family.†
p. 181.1
- Richard pointed back toward the Chinese family and refugees at his end of the hallway.†
p. 181.6
- The children of the young mother refugee, Vicky, on the couch in the middle of the hallway, began to cry.†
p. 227.6 *refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
- They stared back at me with the same vacant expression that many of the other refugees had started to give me.†
p. 228.2refugees = people who fled their homeland
- Some of the hallway refugees had started catching rats in the downstairs lobby.†
p. 248.4
- Two of the refugees sleeping in the hallway had defecated right in their clothes, under the sheets, and were in terrible shape.†
p. 249.3
- "We had to drive off two gangs of refugees yesterday at gunpoint," said Chuck, standing to take the pot of tea to the hallway.†
p. 258.8
- I walked with the growing crowds along the shoulder of the highway, a corridor hemmed in by high walls covered in creeping vines, becoming a stream of refugees as we passed Fairfax and Oakton and Vienna on the way in.†
p. 297.2
- Adrenalin fueled my descent from the scaffolding, and I carefully made my way back onto the street, back into the flow of refugees, trying not to attract attention.†
p. 299.2
- Our police were there, definitely Americans who were directing the stream of refugees.†
p. 306.8
- I remembered the streams of refugees I'd walked with through Washington.†
p. 311.7
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)