How to Use foreign-born in a Sentence

foreign-born

adjective
  • Twenty-seven per cent of my state is foreign-born.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Nearly half of the borough is foreign-born.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
  • More than one-quarter of physicians and surgeons are foreign-born.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • In fact, six of the league’s past seven MVPs have been foreign-born.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 4 June 2025
  • Of that total, about 12% of residents are foreign-born.
    — Charlotte Observer, 29 Jan. 2026
  • About 70% of respondents are US-born; one in four are foreign-born.
    — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026
  • And the growth of the foreign-born in the American South has been the fastest in the past 10 years.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • About a quarter of all NBA players this season are foreign-born.
    — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Since then, every first overall pick has been either a minority, foreign-born, or both.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
  • An even higher share – roughly 30% – are foreign-born in construction.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 30 June 2025
  • South of Market saw growth in both the overall and foreign-born populations over the recent decade.
    — Adriana Rezal, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
  • The union’s members are nearly all Hispanic and foreign-born, according to the union.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Care at home is even more dependent upon immigrants, with around 1 in 3 home health workers foreign-born.
    — Allie Canal, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2026
  • About one-third of construction workers are foreign-born, the Harvard study found—about twice the rate of the overall labor force.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • The data also show that nearly a third of residents are foreign-born, a share that is almost double the statewide average.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Just over 19% of the once rapidly declining industrial city is now foreign-born, the center said.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 June 2024
  • More than a quarter of its residents are foreign-born, according to government figures.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
  • Millions of parents in the United States, native- and foreign-born alike, rely on immigrants to take care of their kids.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2025
  • According to the Census, around one in five Chicago residents is foreign-born.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Roughly one in five Floridians is foreign-born, and immigrants make up close to half the workforce in the industries the state runs on.
    — Paula De La Cruz, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Nationwide, about a third of the construction workforce is foreign-born, Simonson said.
    — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In 1994, about 8% of the country's population was foreign-born.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 9 May 2026
  • Images from those strikes show miners of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds – white and Black, American- and foreign-born – wearing red bandanas.
    — Catherine Simpson Bueker, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
  • Two in five doctorate-level scientists and engineers in the United States are foreign-born.
    — Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • Twenty-eight percent of the residents are foreign-born, double the statewide rate, according to MOC.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Over half of the population in Miami-Dade is foreign-born, and Spanish is the main language spoken at home and on the street.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • Fort Myers is roughly a quarter Latino and a fifth foreign-born, according to Census data.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Qualifying children must be born in the United States or foreign-born with a green card or pass the substantial presence test for tax purposes.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Tougher immigration policies are taking a toll on the construction sector, where about a third of workers are foreign-born, and which lacks a dedicated visa program.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Just 3% of players on NFL rosters last season were foreign-born, according to one analysis.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 15 May 2026

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