Definition: 1. An exile who flees for safety. 2. A person who has been forced to leave their country or home, because there is a war or for political, religious or social reasons.
Use 'refugee' in a sentence:
1. Most refugee doctors never get the chance to practise medicine in our hospitals.
2. They stay here a few hours before being sent to refugee camps, which are now almost full.
3. A political refugee from Cameroon has moved into our neighbourhood.
4. The UN has begun making airdrops of food to refugees.
5. The government offered sanctuary to 4 000 refugees.
6. Less than a third of refugee girls are in school.
7. I am not Thai citizen, so, I cannot go outside refugee camp.
8. On most days, refugee huts are vacant as the hunt begins for food aid.
9. The refugees were forcibly repatriated.
10. Our hearts went out to the brave little refugee.
11. I am refugee!
12. Sometimes one wonders what would have been the behaviour of these stout young men in a packed refugee train or a train on its way to a prison-camp during the War.
13. At present, the global refugee situation is not optimistic.
14. Why would you be arrested because you're a refugee?
15. Refugees settling in Britain suffer from a number of problems.
16. The private group lobbies for refugee rights.
17. Many of the refugees have suffered torture.
18. He was an Afghan refugee named Awal.
19. The first story this Jersey refugee wrote for the Herald featured a Cuban refugee whose Russian parents had fled the Bolsheviks to settle in Havana in1918.
20. Refugee workers said such action was a violation of medical ethics.
21. They were granted refugee status.
22. Did you live in a refugee camp before?
23. Oxfam may also help with the transportation of refugees.
24. He and his family had been living in a refugee camp in Kenya.
25. The blue is refugee camps these volunteers had spotted from the air.
26. You want refugee status?
27. She was taking the food to the refugee camp, in which she distributed it to children.
28. We'd never seen anything like this with any refugee group.
29. The partners will be marking World Refugee day on Saturday.
30. Many of the refugees were resettled in Britain and Canada.
31. There's tremendous tension between the local population and the refugees.
32. They flew to Europe to publicize the plight of the refugees.
33. To the refugees, the food shipments were manna from heaven.
34. They say they will stay to rebuild their homes rather than retreat to refugee camps.
35. The government is committed to housing the refugees.
36. Most refugee doctors never get the chance to practice medicine in British hospitals.
37. The project is part of a United Nations plan for refugees.
38. Many of the refugee villages are in isolated areas.
39. I asked my principal if he could arrange a collection for a refugee charity.
40. They claimed they were political refugees and not economic migrants.
41. Refugees continue to flood into neighbouring countries.
42. A quarter of a million refugees roved around the country.
43. The refugees are being lodged at an old army base.
44. Our experience as refugees taught us many valuable lessons.
45. One secret military unit tried to contaminate the drinking water of the refugees.
46. The church became a sanctuary for the refugees.
47. The continuing tension has prompted more than half the inhabitants of the refugee camp to flee to safer areas.
48. Many refugees have been forced to flee their homeland.
49. Overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions led to disease in the refugee camps.
50. Troops tried to set up a lookout post inside a refugee camp.
51. The government had abandoned the refugees to their fate.
52. The task of the organization is to ensure fair play when food is distributed to the refugees.
53. Only genuine refugees can apply for asylum.
54. The refugees were in a pitiable state.
55. The visit helped to focus world attention on the plight of the refugees.
56. The influx of refugees has stretched the country's resources to the limit.
