be a native of
Example Sentences
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He also happens to be a native of Michigan.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2021
If she’d driven farther, I’d be a native of Chicago or St. Louis, but Indianapolis it was.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
Pullman again gives a gruffly understated but impressive performance as Harry, who happens to be a native of the town where this new murder took place.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018
Active members of the military and veterans must serve in, live in or be a native of the same counties.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2014
And though I could never, myself, be a native of any of these worlds, I knew that nothing so essentialist as race stood between us.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
