birthplace

Example Sentences

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The region became the birthplace of the Chicano civil rights movement that included the East L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

How appropriate that the April 23-25 draft will be held for the first time in Pittsburgh, birthplace of the Steel Curtain.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

In nine years since she relocated to Ghana, she has only returned to her birthplace in the United States once.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

Similar pictures appear in state museums across the island from the Bay of Pigs to Birán, the birthplace of the father of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

She, who had never been more than fifty miles from her birthplace, learned to traverse the maze of Spanish-named streets in that enigma that is Los Angeles.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou