Examples of 'boat people' in a sentence
Meaning of "boat people"
boat people ~ refers to refugees or asylum seekers who escape their country by boat, typically in overcrowded or unsafe vessels, due to political persecution, conflict, or economic reasons. This phrase is often used in discussions on migration and humanitarian issues
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- refugees fleeing by sea, particularly those fleeing from South Vietnam during the 1970s and '80s.
- An ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats, particularly the Tanka or Dan people of East Asia.
- plural of boat person
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Boat people are interned in camps or special prisons.
Hundreds of thousands of the boat people died.
The boat people asked for food.
These people came to be called boat people.
We boat people like to keep to ourselves.
Call them the new boat people.
The boat people who we left asked us to entertain.
The one with the boat people.
Boat people are like people in general.
The model aircraft and boat people.
The boat people who we left alone ask to entertain.
You are going to see the boat people trying to sell.
Boat people are illegal.
Coast port boat people cross.
Humanitarian situation and boat people.
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Kind of like how boat people feel about boats.
Others tried to care for the boat people.
Thousands of boat people died fleeing the communist regime.
They are like crazy boat people.
The plight of the boat people became an international concern.
And we all know what those boat people do.
Weekday boat people are.
Great gift for sailors and boat people.
Boat people deluxe.
I hate boats and boat people.
Not boat people.
My brother was one of the boat people.
Boat people are forbidden.
Became one of the boat people.
Some boat people drive and serve as tour guides for sightseeing sampans on the waterfront.
Declaration on the liberian boat people.
As the boat people.
The second key group are the boat people.
Once we saw Vietnamese boat people fleeing oppressive regimes.
Parliament resolution on boat people.
Vietnamese boat people were stranded on the island in aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Just so with the boat people.
This article uses boat people to apply only to those who fled Vietnam by boat.
There would be no more boat people.
Every morning the Aberdeen boat people catch fresh fish to make fish balls.
Many of them were the descendants of fishermen or boat people.
Then the boat people.
She had no news after she left on a boat people.
We can not have a flock of boat people running around here.
Let us not even mention the massive outflow of boat people.
Those poor boat people.
So tomorrow the boarding house gets given to the boat people.
They were boat people.
A portable memorial showcases photographs of communist atrocities and ragged boat people.
Do it for the boat people.
