Example Sentences

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Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2019

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2018

Lazarus’ statue was not asking: “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost, to me”; it commanded.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2017

It is a new world indeed when Lady Liberty – "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me" – might feel more at home in Hamburg than in New York Harbor.

From US News • Sep. 9, 2015

And in her embrace, the tempest-tost lived and died to the mighty roar of applause.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny