Examples of birthplace in a Sentence
He visited his grandmother's birthplace.
New Orleans is regarded as the birthplace of jazz.
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And as has been ARC’s tradition since the festival launched in 2021, the bill features a list of house music pioneers, with the festival itself intended to celebrate the city’s history as the genre’s birthplace.
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Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2026
St Andrews, Scotland The birthplace of golf, and the town where Prince William and Kate fell in love during college, should be on every adult’s bucket list.
—Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
At the height of the sectarian war, parts of Baghdad were so riddled with impromptu militia checkpoints that many Iraqis started carrying two official-looking IDs — one genuine and the other a forgery with a last name and birthplace associated with the other sect.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
This tiny, uninhabited island is protected by UNESCO and was home to humans as far back as 3,000 BC, later becoming a key location in Greek mythology as the birthplace of Apollo and his twin sister Artemis.
—Katie Silcox, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2026
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Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2026
St Andrews, Scotland The birthplace of golf, and the town where Prince William and Kate fell in love during college, should be on every adult’s bucket list.
—Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
At the height of the sectarian war, parts of Baghdad were so riddled with impromptu militia checkpoints that many Iraqis started carrying two official-looking IDs — one genuine and the other a forgery with a last name and birthplace associated with the other sect.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
This tiny, uninhabited island is protected by UNESCO and was home to humans as far back as 3,000 BC, later becoming a key location in Greek mythology as the birthplace of Apollo and his twin sister Artemis.
—Katie Silcox, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2026
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“Birthplace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birthplace. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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birthplace
noun
birth·place
-ˌplās 
: place of birth or origin
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