How to Use deport in a Sentence

deport

verb
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  • Thousands of immigrants had been illegally deported.
  • Because he could have been deported if that was the case.
    — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Those who are deported can’t try to reenter for five years.
    — Alexandra Hinojosa, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
  • Should Prince Harry be deported from the United States due to his past drug use?
    — Giorgi Minasovi and Jonathan Jk Stoltman, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Patino said none of her clients would speak on the record out of fear of being evicted and/or deported.
    — Jim Morrison, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Her sister was the first to be deported, with her husband, followed by her brother and his wife.
    — Nina Siegal, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
  • She and her mother were deported the summer before fourth grade, and went to live with her abuela in Chihuahua.
    — Nick Fouriezos, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • And those who are ordered removed are not likely to be deported.
    — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • He was first deported after driving the getaway car for a robbery as a teen in Georgia.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Roldan will be deported to his native Bolivia when his term ends.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • By then, Toaquiza had missed his hearing and a judge had ordered him and his family deported.
    — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • He was forced to skip some of the most important tournaments in tennis over the past two years, and last year was detained and deported from Australia ahead of the Open.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • It is intended as the first step in the asylum process, and migrants who are found to lack a credible claim can be swiftly deported.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The agency couldn’t deport everyone, and a large portion of the people who were allowed into the country were not even screened for asylum.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The gap between the number of migrants taken into CBP custody versus the number of people who are sent back or deported has widened each of the last three years.
    — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Could they be arrested and deported under Texas's new law?
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2024
  • He is expected to sign a treaty with Rwanda that the government hopes will allay concerns in the British courts about its plan to deport asylum seekers to the African country.
    — Kitty Donaldson, Fortune Europe, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The couple, who are undocumented workers, only leave their house to go to work, out of fear they'll be deported.
    — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 3 July 2023
  • When the lead actor was himself detained and deported while filming, Schickele allowed his film to take a turn toward the real as well.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But the official with one of the other agencies involved in the processing of returned and deported Haitians at the Cap-Haïtien port said this claim is simply not true.
    — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Her ancestors were deported to Central Asia, where she was born.
    — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But even when that happens, years down the road, applicants are highly unlikely to be deported.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • For the first time, Magana was able to obtain a work permit without fear of being deported.
    — WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The man, whose name was Arnulfo, was deported to Mexico.
    — Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The videos show migrant mothers with small children in their arms boarding deportation flights, and boys and girls awaiting to be deported.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The country has also deported some Venezuelan migrants back home.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 5 Feb. 2024
  • How Russians deport Ukrainians from their own country Your country has been invaded and your home has been destroyed.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • Dangerous criminals who are in the U.S. must be caught and deported (or put in prison and then deported upon release).
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Captains, crew and passengers are usually deported back to Haiti in days.
    — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
  • But few are deported, due in part to legal and bureaucratic constraints.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023

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