emigrate - use in sentences

Object

  • year: Moreover, some 150,000 British citizens emigrate every year.

Modifying Another Word

  • subsequently: William had married Rebecca REVELL from Gresley Burton on Trent and had subsequently emigrate to the U.S.A. in 1904.

Preposition: in

  • future: The more interesting answer was the 13 % of people who told ICM they were hoping to emigrate in the near future.

Modifying Another Word

  • there: She lived in East Africa for the first thirteen years of her life - her grandparents emigrated there from India.
  • recently: O'Lachlan recently emigrated from Australia to Los Angeles to further his film career.
  • then: They then emigrated to the United States of America to look for work.

Preposition: for

  • reason: Some 24 per cent of the respondents said they would emigrate for financial reasons, finding the pound rate too expensive.

Infinitive complement

  • find: In the US, much of his work was based among the black Cuban tobacco workers who had emigrated to find work.
  • live: Throughout the century thousands of people emigrated to live in other countries.

Preposition: in

  • year: Still, over 100,000 Scots emigrated in these years.
  • order: Other came to improve their economic circumstances while some young men emigrated in order to avoid military service.
  • 1970s: Murat Kurnaz ( pictured ), aged 23, is a Turkish national born in Germany, where his parents emigrated in the 1970s.

Preposition: from

  • country: They emigrated from the Scottish border country about 1851 to Ontario, Canada.

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