city-born
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of city-born
Example Sentences
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Liza, his city-born wife who is new to the neo-plantation, once rides out to the woods where the field hands live in abject squalor.
From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2018
Agricultural schools have more city-born students than farm-bred ones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a city-born G.I. has yearned for a postwar farm.
From Time Magazine Archive
No," said Wyllard; "at least, they show no sign of it, and some of them and the city-born Canadians are, I think, the salt of this earth.
From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus
Roosevelt was the first President since William Henry Harrison to bring to his office the vigor and freshness of the frontier, as he was, anomalously, the first city-born or wealthy-born incumbent.
From History of the United States, Volume 6 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
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