refugee
Example Sentences
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The red flag with central yellow star stayed official in the home country, while the Southern yellow flag with three red stripes became a refugee reminder in the United States.
From Salon
His early actions in the office included washing the feet of the elderly and prisoners and advocating for the rights of refugees and migrants.
From BBC
The outgoing United Nations refugee chief fears an increasingly fragmented world is fuelling global conflicts and crises, and inflaming hostility towards people desperately fleeing for safety.
From Barron's
He has carried out long-term research into the children of Syrian war refugees, and cautions against making assumptions.
From BBC
Those jobs attracted a new kind of refugee, as immigrants arrived from across Europe, building a German Catholic church only a short distance from the Polish, Croatian, Irish and Belgian Catholic churches.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
