How to Use deport in a Sentence

deport

verb
  • Thousands of immigrants had been illegally deported.
  • None of us knew when we would be deported.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
  • It was given to her the day she was deported.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Some of his colleagues feared that they would soon be deported.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Also, this space force is pro-alien rights and fight back against those who seek to deport them.
    — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • But when the police raid her home, and try to deport her and her dad, they are forced to flee.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The spokesperson did not say how many have been deported.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • Twelve have since been deported or left the country.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
  • She’d been scammed, then deported.
    — Naisha Roy, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • He was then deported to Ecuador.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • My policy is to deport them all.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • The deported will face the beginning of a new saga back home.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Far more have faced the threat of being deported to a third country.
    — Julia Ingram, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • Critics saw the move as a way of deporting more people, faster.
    — Rachel Nolan, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • It's eased the way to deport migrants to countries other than their own.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Their first call was a woman whose husband had been deported.
    — Kate Wells, NPR, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Her husband says the guards taunt him and others, telling them they will soon be deported.
    — USA Today, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Some of them will be deported to third countries, while some will be sent to Gaza.
    — Yamiche Alcindor, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025
  • And many have already been deported.
    — Alissa Quart, Time, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Those people can now be deported.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 22 Dec. 2025
  • But he was not deported after his prison sentence.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • They were quickly detained and deported back, the memo said.
    — John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Anyone who has been deported received full due process.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • About one million have self-deported.
    — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Around 90% of those deported were men, the data show.
    — Steve Fisher, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Around 90% of those deported were men, the data show.
    — Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2026
  • By mistake, he was deported there anyway last year.
    — Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • By mistake, he was deported there last year anyway.
    — CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • By mistake, he was deported there anyway last year.
    — Travis Loller, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026

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