Examples of “emigrate” in a Sentence

3 example sentences showing how to use emigrate, grouped by meaning.

verb To leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.

Her family was planning to emigrate to the U.S. from Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and couldn't afford school fees. — Kamala Thiagarajan, If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it! (2025)
Her grandparents emigrated from Poland in the 1950s.
Thousands emigrated during the economic crisis.