REFUGEE in a Sentence
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72 example sentences for REFUGEE, such as:
1. They were granted refugee status.
2. The Home Office has refused him refugee status.
3. One of these refugees found herself almost at home.
4. The author portrays life in a refugee camp very vividly.
5. Troops tried to set up a lookout post inside a refugee camp.
2. The Home Office has refused him refugee status.
3. One of these refugees found herself almost at home.
4. The author portrays life in a refugee camp very vividly.
5. Troops tried to set up a lookout post inside a refugee camp.
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Meanings and Examples of REFUGEE
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refugee
n. an exile who flees for safety
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.
2 And Gerald couldn't possibly refugee out of their way with three sick women.
3 Already Atlanta was full of refugees from east Tennessee, and the town had heard firsthand stories from them of what suffering they had gone through.
4 These refugees cried out to see Pennsylvania one solid sheet of flame, and even the gentlest of old ladies wore expressions of grim pleasure.
5 As they fell back down the valley, an army of refugees fell back before them.
6 With this backwash of wounded bearing conflicting reports and the increase of frightened refugees crowding into the already crowded town, Atlanta was in an uproar.
7 Atlanta was crowded with visitors, refugees, families of wounded men in the hospitals, wives and mothers of soldiers fighting at the mountain who wished to be near them in case of wounds.
8 The town was crowded with soldiers, swamped with wounded, jammed with refugees, and this one line was inadequate for the crying needs of the stricken city.
9 Such a policy was difficult to enforce; some of the black refugees declared themselves freemen, others showed that their masters had deserted them, and still others were captured with forts and plantations.
10 First, he cared for the refugees at Fortress Monroe; and then, after Sherman had captured Hilton Head, Pierce was sent there to found his Port Royal experiment of making free workingmen out of slaves.
11 The German name of the victim, the absence of all other motive, and the sinister inscription on the wall, all pointed to its perpetration by political refugees and revolutionists.
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12 One of these refugees found herself almost at home.
13 Macon was their destination and many of those who took the train that night had already refugeed five and six times before, as Johnston fell back from Dalton.
14 There were no sounds of negroes' lazy voices in neighboring kitchens, no pleasant sounds of breakfasts being prepared, for all the near neighbors except Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Merriwether had refugeed to Macon.
15 She ran down the stairs with some idea of packing up Miss Pittypat's china and the little silver she had left when she refugeed to Macon.
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1 The author portrays life in a refugee camp very vividly.
2 In the refugee centres we saw many children whose stomachs were distended because of lack of food.
3 Troops tried to set up a lookout post inside a refugee camp.
4 She was visibly shocked by the conditions she witnessed in the refugee camp.
5 His early years in the refugee camp left a deep psychological scar.
6 I asked my headmaster if he could arrange a collection for a refugee charity.
7 The arrival of the fresh medical supplies was a welcome sight for the beleaguered doctors working in the refugee camps.
8 Our neighborhood looked like a refugee camp, bursting its seams.
9 The refugee problem has now reached immeasurable proportions.
10 They say they will stay to rebuild their homes rather than retreat to refugee camps.
11 He had to show that he had a well-founded fear of persecution on religious or political grounds to qualify as a refugee.
12 The Home Office has refused him refugee status.
13 They were granted refugee status.
14 There has been an increase in applications for refugee status.
15 The government has set two refugee camps near the earthquake town.