Example sentences for: home-grown

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

  • In addition, all their information systems were "home-grown," and disseminating them has proved difficult even to small hospitals within their own networks.

  • For the Italian press Friday, Kosovo developments paled in significance beside a feared revival of home-grown terrorism.

  •  — Hollywood extravaganzas, and home-grown media stunts, not the least of which was the hullabaloo surrounding the Dionne quintuplets, born in Ontario in 1934.

  • breadfruit-swopper (derogatory and offensive) a person so poor that he or she has nothing to offer in exchange for any item but a home-grown breadfruit (which nearly everybody already has).

  • the Child Pornography Prevention Act are our home-grown fairy tales, ghostly adumbrations of the hysteria that swept over us in the eighties.


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