home-grown

Example Sentences

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Most of the waste the villagers recycle is home-grown, researchers and residents say.

From Barron's

I'm old enough to remember the three West Ham players who helped England win their only World Cup, in 1966 at Wembley, and I am sure everyone reading this can relate to the home-grown talent in your team, and how special the feeling is to know "he's one of our own".

From BBC

It's a symbolic way of showing how much supporters love watching home-grown talent break into their club's first team.

From BBC

It’s a rare game of home-grown players representing their communities absent of transfer students.

From Los Angeles Times

It was India's first bunch of home-grown architects - pivotal figures like Chimanlal Master, Laxman Vishnu Sathe and Gopalji Mulji Bhuta - who integrated it into their designs after returning home with degrees from the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.

From BBC