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.

  • Measured at the state level, hospital uncompensated care expenditures were not statistically significantly related to percentage foreign-born, percentage of teaching hospitals, or states' implementation decisions; in our model, higher uninsurance rates emerged as the only significant predictor of uncompensated hospital care expenditures.

  • Texas and California are also among the states with the highest percentage of foreign-born residents, although California did not implement PRWORA's Medicaid eligibility bar.

  • Results of the multivariable regression modeling (Table 1) suggest that, controlling for time and a state's foreign-born population, percentage of teaching hospitals, and implementation decision, a 1% increase in a state's uninsured population yields a 4.1% increase in the amount of uncompensated care provided ( P < .001).

  • Both the dependent variable - uncompensated care per admission - and percentage foreign-born were used in log form due to nonnormal distributions revealed in exploratory analyses.


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