How to Use native-born in a Sentence

native-born

adjective

• These analysts had anticipated that growth in the number of migrants would offset that decline among the native-born.
  — Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2026
• Since most Latinos are native-born, their health status is generally poorer compared to non-Latino populations and immigrant groups.
  — Noreen Sugrue, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Research shows that immigrants access public services at lower rates than the native-born, and the major federal public benefits programs exclude non-citizens anyway.
  — Raul A. Reyes, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
• Taken together, all these groups — in the state’s north, the San Joaquin Valley, and inland San Diego and Riverside counties — are a bit poorer, older, more native-born and less college-educated than the state average.
  — Hanna Zakharenko, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2025
• Activists in the industrial labor movement, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, compared their autocratic bosses to King George III and insisted that every American, native-born or immigrant, had the right to join a union and go on strike.
  — Michael Kazin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026