REFUGEE in a Sentence

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The UN had been co-operating with the State Department on a plan to find countries willing to take the refugees.

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 Meanings and Examples of REFUGEE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
refugee
 n.  one who flees to shelter, or place of safety
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  And Gerald couldn't possibly refugee out of their way with three sick women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  Already Atlanta was full of refugees from east Tennessee, and the town had heard firsthand stories from them of what suffering they had gone through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  These refugees cried out to see Pennsylvania one solid sheet of flame, and even the gentlest of old ladies wore expressions of grim pleasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  As they fell back down the valley, an army of refugees fell back before them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  With this backwash of wounded bearing conflicting reports and the increase of frightened refugees crowding into the already crowded town, Atlanta was in an uproar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  Atlanta was crowded with visitors, refugees, families of wounded men in the hospitals, wives and mothers of soldiers fighting at the mountain who wished to be near them in case of wounds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  The town was crowded with soldiers, swamped with wounded, jammed with refugees, and this one line was inadequate for the crying needs of the stricken city.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  Such a policy was difficult to enforce; some of the black refugees declared themselves freemen, others showed that their masters had deserted them, and still others were captured with forts and plantations.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
10  First, he cared for the refugees at Fortress Monroe; and then, after Sherman had captured Hilton Head, Pierce was sent there to found his Port Royal experiment of making free workingmen out of slaves.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
11  The German name of the victim, the absence of all other motive, and the sinister inscription on the wall, all pointed to its perpetration by political refugees and revolutionists.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
12  One of these refugees found herself almost at home.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT
13  Macon was their destination and many of those who took the train that night had already refugeed five and six times before, as Johnston fell back from Dalton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  There were no sounds of negroes' lazy voices in neighboring kitchens, no pleasant sounds of breakfasts being prepared, for all the near neighbors except Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Merriwether had refugeed to Macon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  She ran down the stairs with some idea of packing up Miss Pittypat's china and the little silver she had left when she refugeed to Macon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
16  When the refugee arrived in America, he was unprepared for the xenophobia he found there.
17  They've fled violence in Myanmar and sought refuge in neighboring Bangladesh; the amount of people is just unfathomable, and U.N. called the exodus as the fastest growing refugee crisis.
18  Hundreds of refugees fled across the border to escape the fighting.
19  The administration is trying to stem the flood of refugees out of Haiti and into Florida.
20  Clothes and blankets have been distributed among the refugees.
21  Only genuine refugees can apply for asylum.
22  The visit helped to focus world attention on the plight of the refugees.
23  These regulations ensure the humane treatment of all refugees.
24  One secret military unit tried to contaminate the drinking water of the refugees.
25  Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
26  The West has chosen to repudiate all responsibility for these refugees.
27  The refugees are being lodged in an old army camp.
28  Our primary concern is to provide the refugees with food and healthcare.
29  The aim is to create a safe haven for the thousands of refugees.
30  The UN had been co-operating with the State Department on a plan to find countries willing to take the refugees.