immigrate

Example Sentences

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While on stage, he thanked his mother who immigrated from Nigeria, working several jobs to provide for him and his siblings.

From BBC

The projected decline in net migration is a sudden shift from the 3.3 million people that the Congressional Budget Office estimated immigrated to the U.S. in 2023—accounting for most of the total population growth.

From Barron's

He was adopted at birth “by a Kansas-born musician-producer and ... a special education teacher who immigrated to the US from Cuba as a child in the 1960s.”

From Los Angeles Times

When Italians immigrated to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they encountered a level of abundance that was unfamiliar.

From Salon

By today’s standards, some immigrated to this country legally.

From Los Angeles Times