How to Use born and bred in a Sentence

born and bred

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• The born and bred New Yorker shares two children with his ex-wife.
  — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
• One of our absolute favorite glassware brands, Australia-born and bred Maison Balzac, is having a delightful sale right now.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 30 Nov. 2025
• One of our absolute favorite glassware brands, Australia-born and bred Maison Balzac, is having a delightful sale right now.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 1 Dec. 2025
• Dusty May, Indiana born and bred and a former manager at IU, went to Ann Arbor.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
• As a born and bred New Yorker in her late 40s with an older brother who once worked in the hip-hop industry, much of what was revealed in the documentary was not news to me.
  — Essence, 11 Dec. 2025
• Jon Hamm was on the New Heights podcast Wednesday where the Kelce brothers talked football with the born and bred Midwesterner.
  — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
• Newsom was born and bred in a state widely associated with moonbeams, metrosexuality, and macrobiotics.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
• Nevada, where Cortez Masto was born and bred, is a state that was Republican red for a very long time before turning blue-ish for a while, starting under Barack Obama in 2008.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
• The new police commissioner, a New Yorker born and bred, was appointed Baltimore police commissioner, bringing with him new techniques and a new senior staff from New York.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2026
• Other key parts were played by Jean Smart, as Helen, Mare’s sassy mother, Angourie Rice as daughter Siobhan, and an ensemble that looked as if they were born and bred in Delco.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026