How to Use refugee in a Sentence

refugee

noun
  • Thousands of refugees have fled the area.
  • The refugees didn’t learn this at the time.
    — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • The refugees came from all over Africa.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Those people that were called refugees.
    — Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
  • But life as a culture war refugee comes at a price.
    — Christian Orozco, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2025
  • For three months, he was moved between refugee camps.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • First, large-scale aid was designed to support refugee camps.
    — Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The house was a common hang spot with a feeling of refugee for artist types.
    — Amanda Peukert, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Soon the refugee was shackled in the snow, hand bleeding, face bruised.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • Any encounter with the police, even if a refugee has a valid visa, is risky.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Their plan is to stretch a rope across the railway bridge to sweep the refugees from the train’s roof.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
  • We were placed in Braunschweig, near Halle, as refugees.
    — Roberto Prieto, Variety, 14 May 2026
  • But both sides dug their heels in on the matter of the refugee seats, and tensions grew.
    — Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2026
  • Some of the children had never seen the outside of a refugee camp.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 6 Dec. 2021
  • His parents were working-class refugees from the East.
    — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Lyoya, a refugee from Congo, was on the ground when he was killed.
    — CBS News, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Some had traveled from refugee camps across the border in Bangladesh.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
  • It’s meant to contrast with the walls designed to repel refugees.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • Where are most refugees in Tennessee from?
    — Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Ukrainian refugees who fled the war would be among those targeted.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Some have spent years in refugee camps awaiting a chance to settle in a host country.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2021
  • This is what refugee resettlement done right looks like.
    — Sediqa Fahimi, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That left the refugees inside with nowhere to turn for basic supplies like food and gas.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Venezuela is one of the countries in the world with the most refugees in other countries.
    — E.r. Pulgar, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In a refugee camp in Bangladesh, children jump rope with chains of rubber bands.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Ready to Cook, the team of whom are Ukrainian refugees, catered the event.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • For refugees, this has a very tangible impact.
    — Kelsey Norman, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
  • The latest cuts and tit-for-tat deals signal a shift in how the world supports refugees.
    — Kelsey Norman, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
  • Her, 53, was born in Laos and spent part of her childhood in a refugee camp.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 29 July 2026
  • Flights for more than 10,000 refugees were canceled overnight.
    — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 20 June 2026

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