immigrate

Example Sentences

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When my family immigrated from China to America, I was surprised that our first shared apartment was on a street with hardly a single English sign.

From Los Angeles Times

Her grandma immigrated to Britain in the 1950s, and she says that being uprooted and starting again was something that she never got over.

From Literature

Both of their Jewish Iranian families immigrated in 1979 to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times

While his father immigrated to New Jersey in 1940, Samaras and his mother remained in Greece for nine more years.

From The Wall Street Journal

A former migrant farm worker, Noriega immigrated to the United States from Sonora, Mexico, in the 1950s.

From Los Angeles Times