émigré

Example Sentences

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In 1778 John Singleton Copley, the American émigré artist, fresh from a successful career as a colonial portraitist, turned to this scene.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

There’s no better cultural history of the German émigré community and its impact on Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Pedrosa, however, speaks about celebrating the foreigner and the historic waves of migration across the planet, offering a catalog of synonyms — “Immigrant, émigré, expatriate” — even as he expands the concept.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2024

But the life of a political émigré, increasingly out of touch and irrelevant, was not for him.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2024

Fortunately the student was a recent émigré from Poland named Marie Curie.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson