migrate
verb (used without object)
to go from one country, region, or place to another.
had migrated
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past perfectof migrate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Not long after, she went through more procedures: one to amputate her damaged limb and another to cut through her neck to retrieve a fishing hook that had migrated to tissue outside the esophagus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
That book is an idiosyncratic account of the explorer’s life by Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish historian, who insisted that Columbus was a Catalan crypto-Jew whose family had migrated to Genoa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
He, like many of the others who perished, had migrated to South Africa.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2025
Microplastics had migrated out of the gut into the tissues of the liver, kidney and even the brain, the team found.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
The Africans, too, had migrated to the cities, where they became clerks, teachers, or servants in wealthy households.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
