Being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person.
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.
4 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.
7 Boy is city - born and city-bred, and a day in the country is better than a thousand in street and park.
8 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.
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