city-bred
[ sit-ee-bred ]
adjective
reared in a city.
Origin of city-bred
1Words Nearby city-bred
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How to use city-bred in a sentence
I could find no solution, unless it be that instinctive belief of a city-bred civilization that all joys are urban.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonFor these reasons the country-bred western youths are more liable to make a success of the work than the city-bred easterner.
Our National Forests | Richard H. Douai BoerkerThe operator had very little patience with college girls, and this Adamless Eden palled on her city-bred soul.
Molly Brown's Sophomore Days | Nell SpeedThat this spoiled, city-bred daughter of "Big Jim" Colton should wish to know my mother was beyond reasoning.
The Rise of Roscoe Paine | Joseph C. LincolnThese types of city bred people whom he saw—girls particularly—and those born to wealth, had no appeal for him as yet.
The "Genius" | Theodore Dreiser
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