How to Use repatriate in a Sentence

repatriate

verb
Definition of repatriatenext
Synonyms for repatriatenext
  • Countries are required to repatriate prisoners of war when conflict has ended.
  • Some refugees forcibly repatriated to the regime state have lived in the country for decades.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Both groups have clamored for the boys’ home countries to repatriate them.
    — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • McGee and Williams were repatriated to the United States.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • This isn’t the first time the museum has repatriated art linked to Latchford.
    — Maysoon Khan, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The bodies of the two Americans killed were repatriated to the U.S. on Thursday.
    — Anne Laurent, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Earlier this year Germany pledged to repatriate more than 1,000 of them in the coming years.
    — Chinedu Asadu, ajc, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The Smithsonian is not the first museum to repatriate art to Benin.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The end goal: To repatriate the land to the Duwamish, its original inhabitants.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Three of the heads, known as toi moko, were repatriated from the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • Four out of five died in North Korea, while Jenkins was repatriated in 2004.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
  • The bodies were repatriated to neighboring countries or buried in the Free State.
    — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • For years, the State Department has urged countries to repatriate their citizens, as the United States did.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • Take, for example, the long-standing fight to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The Indian Consulate tweeted saying it was involved in the case and working to repatriate the body to India.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Over the summer, the National Gallery of Australia agreed to repatriate three looted statues purchased from the art dealer.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In the past, American diplomats have tried to work with the Chinese government to persuade it to repatriate its citizens, and the response has tended to be the same.
    — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Instead of trying to answer who, exactly, is the right tribe to repatriate to, the museum is asking tribes to lead in deciding what’s the best way to right a wrong.
    — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 27 Jan. 2023
  • As of Friday, more than 4,700 of them had been repatriated to Thailand, according to the Thai foreign ministry.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Efforts to repatriate the Rohingya have failed because of doubts their safety can be assured.
    — Edna Tarigan and Reza Saifullah, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In March 2022, her remains were repatriated to the US followed by a memorial service and burial, the release says.
    — Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 6 July 2023
  • Much of the film’s action is set in Vietnam, where Lee’s character Ma Seok-do travels to repatriate a fugitive, and while in the country uncovers a crime nest.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 July 2022
  • The government has begun to return and repatriate Native and Indigenous land to tribes.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Biden condemned the images as flights continued to repatriate migrants, thousands of who remain at the border.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Their bodies were repatriated to Russia in the course of several months, flown a few at a time, to avoid attracting too much attention.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Many countries have refused to repatriate their nationals who joined ISIS.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Now dozens are being repatriated to the Himalayan nation, part of a growing global effort to return such items to countries in Asia, Africa and elsewhere.
    — Binaj Gurubacharya, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Now dozens are being repatriated to the Himalayan nation, part of a growing global effort to return such items to countries in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.
    — Binaj Gurubacharya, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Kiwi that die must be repatriated to New Zealand for burial.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • An effort to repatriate many of the refugees has repeatedly faltered under the military.
    — Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022

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