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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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).


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