hegira

Example Sentences

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Then when Whitney, the world’s most unwanted guest, made her latest hegira and showed up in Montauk in search of Scotty, noble Cole drove her back to Brooklyn.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2015

Curiously, the one tabloid-type-thing that insular Americans may be likely to remember about the Trudeaus—his wife Margaret’s Studio 54 hegira, in the nineteen-seventies—has been suggested as a causal agent in Monday’s events.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2015

Last year, a group of Preservation people made the hegira to San Francisco and were honored before the game.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2013

Only last year, many sociologists and psychiatrists dismissed the hippie hegira with a verbal flick of the wrist.

From Time Magazine Archive

McCandless made an indelible impression on a number of people during the course of his hegira, most of whom spent only a few days in his company, a week or two at most.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer