Example sentences for: foreign-born

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

  • In New York, for example, where more than half the city's current population is foreign-born, immigrants have helped renew neighborhoods: Koreans and Chinese have revitalized Flushing, Queens; as have Russian Jews Brighton Beach; Caribbeans Flatbush; and Dominicans and Irish Washington Heights.

  • We collected the following state-level data for the period from 1994 through 1999: foreign-born, noncitizen population; health uninsurance rates; percentage of teaching hospitals as a proportion of all hospitals reporting data per state; and each state's decision regarding whether to implement the PRWORA Medicaid bar for legal permanent residents or to continue offering nonemergency Medicaid coverage using state-only funds.

  • Malamud was born in Brooklyn in 1914 (and died in 1986), and he grew up in the kind of immigrant environment in which little children, because they are the native-born half of a foreign-born neighborhood, are obliged to shield their vulnerable elders from the contempt of the outside world.

  • We hypothesized that hospital uncompensated care expenditures would be greater in states with higher percentages of foreign-born residents, lower rates of insurance coverage, and higher percentages of teaching hospitals.

  • Controlling for all other variables, a 1% increase in the log of a state's foreign-born population yields a 2.2% increase in uncompensated care, though this result was only significant at the .10 level.


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