How to Use repatriate in a Sentence

repatriate

verb
Definition of repatriatenext
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  • Countries are required to repatriate prisoners of war when conflict has ended.
  • And some of his peers who moved away would like to repatriate but are shut out of the market.
    — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • At the time, his daughter said in an interview, the family had already spent two years drawing up a plan to repatriate the artifacts en masse.
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
  • For now, the family is raising money to repatriate Cristian’s body to Honduras.
    — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Although foreign investors can repatriate funds from China’s domestic stock market, the process can be long and unpredictable.
    — Ben Dummett, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Museum officials in March announced plans to repatriate 11 pieces tied to Latchford or Bunker.
    — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 10 June 2024
  • The industry as a whole has also struggled to repatriate all crew members aboard, leaving thousands of workers stranded at sea for months without pay after the industry shut down in March.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Many countries have struggled to repatriate their citizens as well as their diplomats during the pandemic, as international air travel shut down and countries closed their borders.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Many skilled nursing facilities, Evans said, are struggling to repatriate residents after hospital stays.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Just this week, Germany signed an accord with Nigeria to repatriate thousands of Benin Bronzes in state holdings in 2022.
    — Alex Greenberger For Artnews, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2021
  • After the war, the U.S. launched a worldwide effort to repatriate the dead.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • 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
  • That process could inform future work to repatriate the 51.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 8 July 2021
  • 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
  • Originally from what is now Iraq, the next step will be to repatriate it to that country, experts say.
    — Washington Post, 29 July 2021
  • 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
  • Plans are underway to bring in forensics experts to identify and repatriate the remains of the children found buried on the site.
    — Rob Gillies, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2021
  • 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
  • Plans are underway to bring in forensics experts to identify and repatriate the remains of the children found buried on the Kamloops site.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2021
  • In the three decades since the law was passed, the Illinois State Museum had made the remains of fewer than 200 individuals ready to repatriate.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024

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