Example sentences for: native-born

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

  • The suspension was generally condoned in the Irish press, but the Irish Times dwelt in an editorial Monday on a new report showing that mortality rates among Irish-born people in Britain "exceed those of all residents of England and Wales by some 30 per cent for men and 20 per cent for women" and that "Irish people there have the highest rates of mental hospitalisation and were more than twice as likely as the native-born to be hospitalised for ...

  • Whatever their ancestors’ cultural and ethnic origins, however, all native-born residents of Israel are called sabras, who today make up more than half of the Jewish population.

  • Many of the top catchers these days are immigrants--once again filling jobs that native-born Americans are reluctant to do.

  • 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.

  • My only credentials are that I am a native-born Londoner now in my mid-sixties and have lived all my life until now in London, including a number of years in the East End.


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