How to Use birthplace in a Sentence

birthplace

noun
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  • New Orleans is regarded as the birthplace of jazz.
  • He visited his grandmother's birthplace.
  • That city is best known as the birthplace of the Jackson 5.
    — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
  • At least 25 places in the North and the South claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
  • New York's Harlem neighborhood is thought by many to be the birthplace of drag balls in the 1860s.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Apr. 2023
  • There are artists from around the world coming in to see the birthplace of where this all started.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Also, a plaque that marks the site as the birthplace of the American League will remain.
    — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The African country is world renowned as being the birthplace of coffee.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 May 2023
  • The list noted that most of those named were born outside the U.S. or had an unknown birthplace.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Otieno was an aspiring hip-hop artist who moved to the US from his birthplace of Kenya at the age of 4, Krudys has said.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
  • At first glance, Stephanie and my mother share only a birthplace.
    — The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The grounds share a gardener with The French Laundry, the famed birthplace of farm-to-table cuisine.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But Pop Smoke was, up until the moment of his murder in L.A. in 2020, defining a new era in the birthplace of hip-hop.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The app was the birthplace of internet celebrities like Logan and Jake Paul.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 6 Aug. 2023
  • This city is the birthplace of marzipan, invented by nuns as early as the 1500s.
    — Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Booked Up has been closed for about a year in his birthplace, with rumors swirling over the fate of the thousands of titles housed inside.
    — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • His set also included tributes to the birthplace of hip-hop in the form of younger talent.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The studio brings a piece of Hollywood to his father’s birthplace.
    — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Spain is considered the birthplace of the espadrille, with the jute sole style dating back as far as the 13th century.
    — Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2023
  • But there’s one ocean creature whose birthplace is strangely secretive, and that’s the great white shark.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Texas is, after all, the original birthplace of Kansas City’s team, Morales, now 60, is quick to point out.
    — Alison Booth, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The Bronx is known as the birthplace of hip hop and the home of the Yankees, but rarely considered as the home to thousands of diverse families raising kids.
    — A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, Parents, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In the Westman colony— birthplace of nearly one in four puffins in the North Atlantic today—the population has plunged by half since 2003.
    — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Gujarat was also the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, who led the Salt March, one of his most famous acts of peaceful protest, through the state in 1930.
    — Margot Bigg, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2024
  • This year’s artwork is a geometric pattern that is said to be inspired by the agave fields that are the birthplace of every tequila.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Splice has found that downloads of trap sounds are down by 14% globally since last year, even in the genre’s birthplace of Atlanta, where those downloads fell by 20%.
    — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Tunisia was the birthplace of Arab Spring democratic uprisings 12 years ago.
    — Barbara Surk, ajc, 24 Dec. 2022
  • One version of the myth says that Epidaurus was the birthplace of Asclepius, who was the son of Apollo and a human woman.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • And this atmosphere is often the birthplace of our most creative thinking.
    — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Yet even this place, far better off than other parts of the state—and a steady draw for tourists as the birthplace of Elvis Presley—is struggling to attract and retain workers.
    — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023

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