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