Example sentences for: born

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

  • He was born in 1892, sent to a Catholic boys home at 8, and then placed in an institution for the feebleminded, from which he escaped at the age of 16.

  • Even though I'm young and British myself, born on the same day as Rachel Whiteread, as it happens, I have to confess to being as profoundly alienated from the YBAs as they seem to be from the kind of art that turns me on.

  • "The euro is born.

  • 1. Never mind that one of the writers of the song was born in the 19 th century, or that Mitchell Parish, veteran lyricist (though born in the 20 th century, just) of "Sleigh Ride" and "Stardust," once described it to me as "a good, conventional Tin Pan Alley song"--there go the social proprieties of the centuries.

  • Females with relatives in high places are born with a silver spoon in their mouth, so to speak, whereas those of lowly origin will spend their life at the bottom.


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