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How to use resettle in a sentence

12 example sentences · verb

Resettle means to settle in a different place. Example: “And so far just two member states, Malta and Finland, are on track to meet their resettling obligations.”

Examples of resettle by meaning

verbTo force someone to settle in a different place.

  • And so far just two member states, Malta and Finland, are on track to meet their resettling obligations.2017 March 2, Eliza Mackintosh, “No more excuses on resettling refugees, European Commission warns”, in CNN
  • Together with our partner in Pittsburgh, Jewish Family and Community Services, and others across the country, we’ve directly resettled more than 450,000 refugees in the US since 1980 when the USRAP was established, according to HIAS annual reports.2018 November 5, Mark Hetfield, “HIAS chief: If you’re not combating hate speech, you’re accepting it”, in CNN
  • After the biggest military evacuation in history, the Biden administration will now resettle more than 60,000 Afghan refugees inside the US over the next several weeks.2021 September 13, Priscilla Alvarez and Oren Liebermann, “Inside the effort to resettle thousands of Afghans in the United States”, in CNN

More sentences with resettle

  • Similarly, Bruyère, another well-esteemed Paris couturiere, resettled in New York for the war.2021, Véronique Pouillard, Paris to New York: The Transatlantic Fashion Industry in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, page…. From the entry couturiere
  • Taipingxi Township, Yichang County, provided experience from developing tea farms on which relocatees can be resettled.1998, Dai Qing, translated by Yi Ming, edited by John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams, The River Dragon has Come! The Three Gorges Dam…. From the entry Taipingxi
  • For most of the Türk people, forcibly resettled in strictly defined regions, life was hard.1996, D. Sinor, S. G. Klyashtorny, “14. The Türk Empire”, in B. A. Litvinsky, Zhang Guang-da, R. Shabani Samghabadi, editors, History of…. From the entry Türk
  • The neighbour eater saved his jug with both hands, barking Romanly, eyes abulge, while the wine danced to its resettling.1977, Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in Abba Abba, Boston: Little Brown, page 49. From the entry abulge
  • Just as a refugee resettles to escape hardship, a leftugee does so to flee the punitive financial environment created in their state by big government.2019 December 27, Jason Orestes, “'Leftugees': Red states must defend themselves from the blue-state exodus”, in Washington Examiner. From the entry leftugee
  • They settled in Kaw Township, a dozen miles from Independence, becoming the first Saints to be resettled in the newly designated Zion.2011, Terryl L. Givens, Matthew J. Grow, Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry saint
  • First, since resettled people had to move into existing communities in designated resettlement areas, policy adjustment to assist host communities with running water and electricity were needed.2012, Kate Lazarus, Bernadette P. Resurreccion, Nga Dao, Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry running water
  • Besides the use of derbends to control mountain passes, the state sometimes engaged in the wholesale removal of troublesome mountain villages, forcibly resettling them in the valleys.2011, Sam White, The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry derbend
  • Why, every 20 years, does Japan rebuild its most sacred shrine, uprooting the sun goddess Amaterasu from her old sanctum and resettling her in a new one?1993 October 7, David E. Sanger, “Ise Journal; Sun Goddess's Sojourn (Will Shinto's Star Rise?)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry sun goddess

Meaning of resettle

  1. verb To settle in a different place.
  2. verb To force someone to settle in a different place.

Full definition of resettle

Questions about resettle in a sentence

How do you use resettle in a sentence?
Resettle is used as a verb. For example: “And so far just two member states, Malta and Finland, are on track to meet their resettling obligations.”
What is a short sentence with resettle?
“Similarly, Bruyère, another well-esteemed Paris couturiere, resettled in New York for the war.”
What does resettle mean?
Resettle means to settle in a different place.

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