Example sentences for: native

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

  • It would certainly save money not to deliver mail to scores of isolated native villages that can only be reached by air, but the natives hardly intend to apologize for living in their ancestral communities.

  • Málaga was the birthplace of Pablo Ruiz Picasso, though the young artist left his native city at age 14 for the more cosmopolitan climates of Madrid and Barcelona.

  • Native American groups hate the Chop, but former President Jimmy Carter defended it in 1991: "With the Braves on top, we have a brave, courageous and successful team, and I think we can look on the American Indians as brave, successful and attractive.

  • How could the testimony of a man like Chambers, Hiss asked with icy contempt, visibly unkempt, overweight, and "forbiddingly drab" (in Lionel Trilling's phrase), with no style and little personal status, a man who had lived, in Hiss' words, "in the sewers, plotting against his native land," possibly outweigh the simple facts of Hiss' career as Harvard graduate, trusted aide to FDR at Yalta, and one of the architects of the United Nations?

  • Around 3000 b.c. , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.


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