IMMIGRANT in a Sentence

Learn IMMIGRANT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
52 example sentences for IMMIGRANT, such as:
1. The immigration officer stamped my passport.
2. He was criticized for his tough stand on immigration.
3. He called for a common European policy on immigration.
4. There was a sudden increase in immigration from Eastern Europe.
5. The immigrant community is strongly concentrated geographically.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of IMMIGRANT
immigrant
 n.  a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
Classic Sentence:
1  Her father had started as a poor immigrant boy and had won the broad acres of Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  Once when he sat down to chat, he told us that in the immigrant car ahead there was a family from 'across the water' whose destination was the same as ours.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
3  I knew this must be the immigrant family the conductor had told us about.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
4  THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
5  From the immigration under Bellovesus resulted the occupation of Lombardy, and, subsequently, the first war of the Gauls with Rome.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII.
6  The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines--all the things we haven't got.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  The immigrants rumbled off into the empty darkness, and we followed them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
8  This was evidently no ordinary party of immigrants, but rather some nomad people who had been compelled from stress of circumstances to seek themselves a new country.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
9  There, too, were droves of sheep and bullocks coming in from the outlying pasture lands, and trains of tired immigrants, men and horses equally weary of their interminable journey.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
10  Since then his poor relations and foreign immigrants have seized it.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  The immigrant community is strongly concentrated geographically.
2  The Prime Minister met many civic leaders, including the mayor and the leaders of the immigrant communities.
3  His is a glamorous version of the American immigrant dream, arriving as a mere Austrian bodybuilder before finding fame, fortune and wife.
4  As well as the baby bonus scheme, Prime Minister says his government is to encourage more immigration as a way of bringing in more talent.
5  Latino citizens responded to the aggressive immigration reform by voting for him in overwhelming numbers.
6  By passing both laws in temporal proximity to one another, Arizona has revealed itself to have great anxiety not merely about illegal immigration in this nation, but about diversity itself.
7  The immigration officer stamped my passport.
8  At his immigration interview, Ivan listed his abundant reasons for coming to America: the hope of religious freedom and the prospect of employment.
9  Then try to find an immigration lawyer, prove that a dependent is counting on you.
10  Relations between Morocco and Spain have been at low ebb now, first because of a breakdown in talks over Spanish fishing rights and, recently, over the illegal immigration issue.
11  Because of all red tape at immigration I missed my connecting flight.
12  He was criticized for his tough stand on immigration.
13  He called for a common European policy on immigration.
14  There was a sudden increase in immigration from Eastern Europe.
15  The prime minister has adopted an inflexible position on immigration.