Below you will find example sentences with "seek asylum". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Seek Asylum in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: asylum
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 16
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 31.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 1 start, 5 middle, 14 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "seek asylum" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 31.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as letting them seek asylum, boats to seek asylum in the, migrants, government and people stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with asylum seekers, asylum claims, seeking asylum, asylum seekers, asylum claims and seeking asylum, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with seek asylum
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Another 25 people, including five minors, have stayed in France where they wish to seek asylum, authorities said. (18 words)
My understanding is that people are entitled to come here to seek asylum and there is a process,” she said. (20 words)
Groups that assist asylum seekers filed a lawsuit and argued the policy was barred by federal law establishing how people can seek asylum. (23 words)
Trump announced he intends to dramatically limit the ways immigrants can seek asylum in the United States, and will seek to curb their ability to receive asylum if they request it after entering the country illegally, rather than at a legal port of entry. (44 words)
What Biden is doing is in one sense limiting the amount of people who cross the border daily to seek asylum and also offering those who cross the border better screening to determine if their asylum claims are true and valid,” she said. (43 words)
The government has made no official comment on reports of Hasina seeking political asylum in the UK, with Home Office sources only indicating that the country’s immigration rules don’t specifically allow individuals to travel to the UK to seek asylum. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
Trump announced he intends to dramatically limit the ways immigrants can seek asylum in the United States, and will seek to curb their ability to receive asylum if they request it after entering the country illegally, rather than at a legal port of entry.
As well as migrants who receive asylum, many submit applications that are not accepted, while others do not even try to seek asylum at all, he said.
In June, the U.S. temporarily suspended asylum processing for those who enter the country illegally, making CBP One of the only avenues for migrants to enter the U.S. to seek asylum and further driving down illegal entries.
Migrants build makeshift fires as they wait to enter and seek asylum in El Paso, Texas, from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, on April 2. President Joe Biden is expected to unveil an immigration order that severely limits asylum-seeker crossings.
The government has made no official comment on reports of Hasina seeking political asylum in the UK, with Home Office sources only indicating that the country’s immigration rules don’t specifically allow individuals to travel to the UK to seek asylum.
Third, those removed to Rwanda, even if found to be refugees under the Rwandan asylum system, can never come back to the UK: they face a lifetime ban for daring to seek asylum here.
What Biden is doing is in one sense limiting the amount of people who cross the border daily to seek asylum and also offering those who cross the border better screening to determine if their asylum claims are true and valid,” she said.
Groups that assist asylum seekers filed a lawsuit and argued the policy was barred by federal law establishing how people can seek asylum.
In July, a second administration order effectively denied asylum to most migrants who arrived at the U.S.’s southern border, insisting they must first seek asylum in another country they had passed through.
The type of migration that actually is spiking is comprised of asylum-seeking families and children, but they are mostly turning themselves in to seek asylum, so a wall is utterly irrelevant to that problem.
They also attack a central pillar of a humanitarian asylum seeker policy: no matter how someone arrives, whether by boat, plane, car or on foot, they have a right to seek asylum.
To the best of our knowledge, however, the Curaçao government has not issued a single asylum-seeker certificate since then, even though hundreds of Venezuelans have requested an interview to seek asylum in Curaçao.
A mobile app for migrants to seek asylum in the United States has been oversaturated since it was introduced this month in one of several major changes to the government's response to unprecedented migration flows.
Another 25 people, including five minors, have stayed in France where they wish to seek asylum, authorities said.
At the time, the US was ending use of a different policy called Title 42, which had allowed the government to swiftly expel migrants without letting them seek asylum.
At the time, the U.S. was ending use of a different policy which had allowed the government to swiftly expel migrants without letting them seek asylum.
In the same interview, Turk said new U.S. migration rules would make it "very difficult" for people to seek asylum at the border.
Last year, over 44,700 migrants made the perilous journey across the English Channel in small boats to seek asylum in the UK.
Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa live in difficult conditions in a park in Sfax province of Tunisia, as they wait for an opportunity to seek asylum in Europe, on Aug. 9, 2023.
My understanding is that people are entitled to come here to seek asylum and there is a process,” she said.