NATIVE in a Sentence

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Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings.

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 Meanings and Examples of NATIVE
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native
 a.  being as origin; as found in nature in the elemental form
Classic Sentence: (135 in 10 pages)
1  The stranger, a native of Savannah, had just returned after twelve years in the inland country.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Their power was nominal but they had at least been able to keep the state government in the hands of native Georgians.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  They were good people and they needed only a short acquaintance with Carpetbaggers and Carpetbag rule to become as resentful of them as the native Georgians were.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  But she had not been ten minutes on her native shore before she realized that she had delayed too long to regain it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
5  From the Gormers' tumultuous progress across their native continent, she returned with an altered view of her situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
6  She discovered that, despite the enthusiastic young writers, the drama was not half so native and close to the soil as motor cars and telephones.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
8  I wonder, thought I, if this can possibly be a part of his Ramadan; do they fast on their hams that way in his native island.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
9  The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
10  He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
11  The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha's Vineyard.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
12  In his youth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler, lying in a lonely bay on his native coast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
13  The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American liberally provides the brains, the rest of the world as generously supplying the muscles.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
14  Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
15  I believe that botanists do not confirm Fuchs's story, but insist that the sunflower was native to those plains.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
16  You will no doubt learn that the mockingbird has the prettiest song of any bird native to North America.
17  The white mulberry is native to eastern and central China; it became naturalized in Europe centuries ago.
18  He has a great deal of native intelligence, ability, charm, etc.
19  The arrival of this South American predator threatened the survival of native species.
20  Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks.
21  When I heard him speaking such broken English, I knew he was not a native American.
22  The presidential candidate is expected to announce his choice for a running mate Saturday in his native Russell, Kan.
23  He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.
24  Our best man was sent to treat with the native leaders.
25  The feel for his native countryside comes through strongly in his photographs.
26  He read a poem in his native language.
27  Our programme ensures daily opportunities to practice your study language with native speakers.
28  English is not my native language.
29  He reverted to his native language.
30  The native population was subjugated and exploited.