emigre

Example Sentences

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The proprietor was an 81-year-old woman, a Polish emigre who fed him, washed his clothes, lavished him with care and complimented him on his “really great legs” as he headed to the Bayonne Bridge.

From Washington Post

The Grunwald Center was established by German émigré Fred Grunwald in 1956 with an eye toward being a resource for students and for research.

From Los Angeles Times

But outside the country, in Russia’s emigre communities — swelled by the hundreds of thousands who fled in response to the invasion or to avoid military conscription — newly established Russian schools are grappling with a different challenge: how to talk to children about the war, which has displaced their families but also spurred a wave of anti-Russian sentiment.

From Washington Post

He urged me to chase one lead, a Russian emigre picture hanger in Alexandria, who assumed when I called on him that I was yet another FBI agent sent to track down Angleton’s unfounded claim that he was a false defector.

From Washington Post

As a Canadian emigre with a nonterminal disability, I am thankful to live in this commonwealth that chose not to follow Canada’s documented descent into reckless, state-driven euthanasia.

From Washington Post