emigrate
verb (used without object)
to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate.
had been emigrating
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past perfect progressiveof emigrate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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From the French portion of the island the whites had been emigrating since the first uprisings; a number had fled into the Spanish colony and these now also left.
From Santo Domingo A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich
Large numbers of Montenegrins had been emigrating into Serbia attracted by the better livelihood to be obtained.
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham
