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
Many a city-born G.I. has yearned for a postwar farm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Agricultural schools have more city-born students than farm-bred ones.
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 Cyrus Cuneo
But when the city-born children come to Mooseheart they come into their own.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by James J. (James John) Davis
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