All 17 Uses of
migrant
in
The Grapes of Wrath
- HIGHWAY 661 is the main migrant road.†
Chpt 12migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- THE CARS of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and then took the migrant way to the West.†
Chpt 17
- THE CARS of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and then took the migrant way to the West.†
Chpt 17
- They were not farm men any more, but migrant men.
Chpt 17 *migrant = (people who) move from one place to another
- But along the highway the cars of the migrant people crawled out like bugs, and the narrow concrete miles stretched ahead.†
Chpt 17migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- And the dispossessed, the migrants, flowed into California, two hundred and fifty thousand, and three hundred thousand.†
Chpt 19migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- THE MOVING, questing people were migrants now.†
Chpt 21
- They were migrants.†
Chpt 21
- And the hostility changed them, welded them, united them—hostility that made the little towns group and arm as though to repel an invader, squads with pick handles, clerks and storekeepers with shotguns, guarding the world against their own people.1 In the West there was panic when the migrants multiplied on the highways.†
Chpt 21
- Men who had never wanted anything very much saw the flare of want in the eyes of the migrants.†
Chpt 21
- And the migrants streamed in on the highways and their hunger was in their eyes, and their need was in their eyes.†
Chpt 21
- THE MIGRANT PEOPLE, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure, and they were hungry for amusement.†
Chpt 23migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- The migrant people looked humbly for pleasure on the roads.†
Chpt 23
- Now the cars of the guests began to arrive, small farmers and their families, migrants from other camps.†
Chpt 24migrants = those who moves from one place to another
- The guests were moving in through the gateway, families from the farms, migrants from the ditch camps.†
Chpt 24
- When the first rain started, the migrant people huddled in their tents, saying, It'll soon be over, and asking, How long's it likely to go on?†
Chpt 29migrant = one who moves from one place to another
- The sheriffs swore in new deputies and ordered new rifles; and the comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
a person (or animal) that moves from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally -- sometimes for work