huddled masses

Example Sentences

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Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2023

But surely many say it's far better to offer a céad míle fáilte than to see your "huddled masses" depart for foreign lands.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2023

In “Sweeney Todd,” Steven Hoggett set the huddled masses of Victorian London lurching and retching about the stage.

From New York Times • May 10, 2023

Things like: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

We sit through an overly sentimental video about "huddled masses" and listen to a bulky soprano belt out the words to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins