birthplace

Example Sentences

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By chance, however, he'd ended up in the birthplace of hip-hop, right at the moment of conception.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Once a classic American success story—he came from a family of striving Italian immigrants who ran Perry’s Grill on North Street in Endicott, N.Y.—Luciano’s life ended in Endicott, the birthplace of IBM.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Now the 60-year-old, who makes a modest living selling dried seafood, is determined to return to his birthplace, having already missed the deaths of his parents and first wife in Bangladesh.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

See you make a guess to its birthplace, this mordant.”

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry