emigrate
verb (used without object)
to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate.
was emigrating
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past progressiveof emigrate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She’d talked about her move as though she was emigrating, though the drive takes only about an hour and a half.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2019
Lida happened to mention a mutual friend who was emigrating.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2015
It appeared he had planned an abrupt departure - writing to the children's schools to say that the family was emigrating.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2011
He was emigrating, with all his goods and gods, to that wonderfully winning region, in the estimation of this people, the valley of the Mississippi.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms
Yet the population was emigrating, and population was restricted.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
