How to Use emigration in a Sentence

emigration

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  • But with the advent of steamships, by the 1880s intensive emigration had spread from every corner of the globe.
    — TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Beijing says the ban is to reduce the spread of Covid, but many in China view it as a way to make emigration more difficult.
    — Yong Xiong, Selina Wang and Nectar Gan, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Google Arts & Culture tells the story of how their themes of emigration and race very nearly led to the state removing them.
    — John Oseid, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The government crackdown after the 2019 protests has sparked a new emigration wave of Hong Kongers to the U.K. and other countries.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • My childhood in Tehran pre-emigration was filled with family and friends, trips to the Caspian Sea, and entire days spent at the pool.
    — Tara Grammy, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Feb. 2023
  • George Siosi Samuels is one product of this emigration.
    — Alexander Lee, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Two wars in the 1990s triggered a wave of emigration, with many Chechens heading for western Europe.
    — Fox News, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Guyana, which has one of the world’s highest emigration rates with more than 55% of the population living abroad, now claims one of the world’s largest shares of oil per capita.
    — Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
  • Give them more license by granting the right of suffrage and equality, and the chances are that emigration from Southern states may set in, and crime increase.
    — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Lebanon has been a country of emigration for centuries.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The emigration of African physicians has continued to rise.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Jewish emigration was the goal of Germany prior to 1942.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The last notable emigration was in September 1968, when squirrels from Vermont to Georgia took off on a hike.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union rose in the period when Kissinger was firmly in charge of détente.
    — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • And the Cuban regime has benefited from emigration, too.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Egypt has recovered the bodies of 87 Egyptians killed in Libya’s floods on Wednesday, the Egyptian emigration ministry said in a statement.
    — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The physical act of emigration is often smooth, but the spiritual one can be far more vexing.
    — Chang Che, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
  • But Crotone, emptied by steady emigration to richer northern Italy and abroad, is also trying to reinvent itself as a place where the migrants can work.
    — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • At a rave in the capital on Saturday, young Russians said Moscow’s party scene was notably smaller since the waves of emigration.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • There are larger consequences, too: As a result of emigration, many of the territories are bereft of talent.
    — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
  • These problems are exacerbated by a chronic skills shortage caused by the human cost of the war and the emigration of tens of thousands of young professionals.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • In Egypt, the government buried 87 Egyptian victims who died in Libya, according to the country’s emigration ministry.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • John James Audubon was among the reputable witnesses of what are more properly called emigrations, not migrations.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Driven by the immigration of white retirees and a slow emigration of Black people, the state’s Black population has dropped over the years to just over a quarter of its 5.2 million residents.
    — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 5 May 2023
  • Outlawing the Jewish Agency is unlikely to end Jewish emigration, since people are still able to leave the country.
    — Shaul Kelner, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2022
  • El Salvador, once synonymous with violence and waves of emigration, saw a dramatic drop in crime.
    — David Culver, CNN, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Laos is a popular route for Chinese trying to avoid legal emigration.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Many families have members overseas, the result of emigration waves—one of which came after huge riots sparked by Bhindranwale’s death.
    — Parth M.n., WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The country’s low birth and fertility rates, coupled with steady emigration, means the population has long been shrinking.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Experts say the volume of this emigration is comparable to the Syrian refugee crisis.
    — Daniela Mohor W., CNN, 14 Oct. 2021

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