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:

  • 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.

  • A multiple regression analysis was conducted to test the hypothesis that total uncompensated care (the sum of charity care and bad debt) per admission would be affected by a state's percentage of foreign-born residents, poverty rate, uninsurance rate, percentage of hospitals, and the state's implementation decision.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • However, the foreign-born noncitizen category used in Census data (defined as any person not born a citizen of the United States and not naturalized) includes categories of persons exempted from PRWORA's Medicaid cuts, such as asylum seekers and refugees.


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