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 town was also the birthplace of French revolutionary Georges Jacques Danton.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 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

“It was the birthplace of the family fortune. It was there that my great-grandfather manufactured the Littmus Lozenge, a candy that was famous the world over.”

From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo