Example sentences for: birthright

How can you use “birthright” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In an editorial Thursday, the Jerusalem Post called for the adoption of the "Birthright" initiative, proposed by Knesset member Yossi Beilin, under which every American Jewish boy or girl would, on turning 17, be given an all-expenses-paid, three-week trip to Israel.

  • That will only be the first step toward healing the pain of having been abandoned several times, neglected, and denied the happy childhood that should be every child's birthright.

  • Not so with Webster , for, owing to a bit of folly in the 1930s, G. & C. Merriam Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts, successors to the line of dictionaries originated by Noah Webster, published a synonym dictionary and called it a Webster . World Publishing Company, of Cleveland, had the wit to see that Merriam had, in effect, forsworn its birthright, for Noah had never published a synonym dictionary.


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