How to Use migration in a Sentence

migration

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  • From the times of the Conquest to the current migration.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Vance said the first thing that needs to be done is to stem migration.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • And, as often happens in migrations like this, the hippies paved the way for the artists.
    — Pilar Guzmán, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2023
  • In the lead-up to the end of Title 42, there has been an increase in migration at the southern border.
    — Hamed Aleaziz, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • The dam was one of four that had blocked the salmon’s migration between the Klamath Basin and the Pacific Ocean.
    — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Now the city stands to be transformed again, this time by a great climate migration.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Higher mortgage rates have slowed migration trends, Redfin said, as the price to own a home grows.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • As migrations go, the oriole journey is not a long one.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Rutte may turn to the right wing for coalition partners more in sync with his new stance on migration.
    — Time, 10 July 2023
  • The last week has been intense, to say the least, thousands crossing per day in the latest spike in migration.
    — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Utah has seen the largest one-year jump in population due to in-migration in the post-World War II era.
    — Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • From the jollof rice of West Africa to the sushi of Japan, rice dishes tell tales of migration, family, and resilience.
    — J.j. Johnson, TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Here's why migration has shifted from record highs to record lows.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The title of second-longest migration goes to the gray wolf, the caribou’s predator.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • When the right winds arrived on Wednesday, a large number of birds set off for their migration at once.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • If these blue state governors want to reverse this mass out migration, time is of the essence.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Lebanon has seen a spike in migration driven by one of the world’s deepest economic crises since the 1850s.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In the eighties, stories of the crack trade sometimes followed the historic maps of Black migration.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The study team had first thought nomadic hunters moved between distant kites with the migrations of herds of gazelles and antelopes.
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • The United States is monitoring wild birds along four migration paths for the flu, and will do the same next year, per Reuters.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And who’s at the other end of this migration metric’s spectrum?
    — Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Most of the Iowa cases were during the spring migration of wild birds in March and April with one reported in early May.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
  • And many of the birds that crashed were likely young and embarking on their first migration, according to Prince.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The two men discussed trying to work on getting at the root causes of migration, Kirby said.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • All three students were part of Vidal de Haymes’ migration study class.
    — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • As with everything in nature, there is a rhythm to bird migration.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Phoenix ranked 18th for fastest-growing places, highlighting the net migration to the Valley.
    — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
  • Bird song ebbs and flows with the seasons, peaking during migrations.
    — Alexandra Marvar, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • That was the ninth highest net increase from migration in the country, and the highest total for Alabama in at least the last decade.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 24 Dec. 2022
  • So far, there is relatively little evidence of large-scale climate migration from high risk states like California, said de Sherbinin.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025

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