immigrate
verb (used without object)
to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.
had immigrated
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past perfectof immigrate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Walter Theodore Rollins was born Sept. 7, 1930, at his grandmother’s house in Harlem, the youngest of three children to parents who had immigrated from the Virgin Islands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Sir Lenny Henry was born In Birmingham to Jamaican parents who had immigrated to the UK.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025
“Almost every shoemaker I met had immigrated to the country,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
Most of my friends’ parents were engineers who had immigrated to the country during graduate school.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2024
The families of most of the seamstresses had immigrated from country villages in Italy, Poland, and Russia, just as the Irish had come fifty years before, hoping for a better life in America.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
