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political refugee
noun
- a person who has fled from a homeland because of political persecution.
Example Sentences
Sam escapes to Beirut, where he embarks on the cheerless life of a political refugee, toiling away in a poultry factory.
In June 1967, with their son Muhamed, they flew to New York City as political refugees.
After spending some time in Britain as a political refugee, he moved to Warsaw to be closer to Belarus.
I never trouble my head about details; it is enough, the man is a political refugee, and his object concealment.
On occasion the Ragusans could be nobly firm, refusing to deliver a political refugee to the Turks, and so forth.
Finally, they all tend to deepen our first suspicion that M. Platzoff was neither more nor less than a political refugee.
Sometimes I touched the edge of the turf, sometimes the riff-raff of the arts, and occasionally the political refugee.
Asylum can be granted as an act of hospitality to a political refugee, who cannot use the vessel as a base for political intrigue.
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