Example Sentences

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New York being New York, the natives gave him a hearty Bronx cheer—interpret that however you like.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

‘It’s really been a joy to reunite the soil with the plants that belong here,’ Christopher Smee says of removing his lawn and planting California natives.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Younger people — so-called digital natives — don’t realize how much this rubbish is a product of the internet.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Part of this is in the rich tradition of European reporters sojourning in the United States who find casual grotesques about Americans far more lucrative and less taxing than actually trying to meet the natives.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026

The corps, led by the suave, unflappable Captain James T. Kirk, included natives of an advanced United Earth, its history of poverty and war now in the past.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly