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:

  • Joining Tito was the only honorable course for a Croat: The other choice was supporting the Nazis and Croatia's home-grown fascist evil, the Ustasha, which slaughtered Jews and Serbs by the thousands.

  • 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).

  • Poles are dedicated moviegoers, so in the cities you’ll find plenty of subtitled Western films on the marquees competing with home-grown product, showing at good, Dolby sound-equipped theaters.

  • MLS allows only five foreigners on its 20-man rosters, a move that cuts costs while guaranteeing playing time for home-grown players.

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


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