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Meanings of city-born in English
Synonyms
Examples for "citified"
Examples for "citified"
1
The magic of youth stole out of the citified night upon her.
2
You-all are goin' ter be larnt citified manners hot off the bat.
3
He had a citified air about him that ate into Tom's vitals.
4
She was never going to change her name to something citified and highfalutin.
5
Concrete would register as foreign matter here, something citified and imported.
1
I ain't like these cityfied folks. Philip brushed at a fly crawling on his forehead.
2
The village beaus scornfully called him "cityfied," and secretly longed to be like him.
3
You certainly do not look very cityfied!
4
They have such a cityfied air.
5
Indeed, some of the fashions called "countryfied" are equally "cityfied," if we judge by the extent of the usage.
1
The whole country round was filled with wonder to his city-bred eyes.
2
Vladimir says all city-bred women and girls are anæmic from doing nothing.
3
Even Gloria, a poor little city-bred angel, must muse upon the statement.
4
Now in the city-bred youth this excited state of mind is chronic, permanent.
5
The little city-bred girl distinguished the visitor from a country man at once.
Usage of city-born in English
1
But when the city-born children come to Mooseheart they come into their own.
2
His city-born and bred son inherited the insidious idea.
3
Harry, by the way, was a city-born bushman, who had been everything for some years.
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They originate closer to nature than city-born men and seem to spring from the very soil.
5
She could not be city-born, Tanner had realized.
6
It is a fact worth noting that the two greatest landscape-painters of all time were city-born and city-bred.
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Boy is city-born and city-bred, and a day in the country is better than a thousand in street and park.
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Anyway, if that were true, if people never did have a chance to leave, no one but the city-born would be prepared to live here.
9
Mexico City-born Zavala would be Mexico's first-ever female president.
10
A figurative student of T. S. Eliot, the Oklahoma City-born writer was an activist who wanted to educate and make humanity more self-aware.
11
Kansas City-born saxophonist Logan Richardson has gone all out on his debut for Blue Note, recruiting what can best be described as band of ringers.