How to Use birthright in a Sentence
birthright
noun-
Making the playoffs every season will be their birthright.
— Jerry Beach, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 -
To some, a car parked on the street is like a birthright.
— Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023 -
Just by birthright, men are on top of the world and the head of the family.
— Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018 -
One’s name and face are what some people might call a birthright.
— Sally Jenkins, courant.com, 25 June 2019 -
But at the same time, this thing that my father gave me, my birthright, was stolen.
— James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2022 -
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, wants to end such birthright status.
— Kate Morrissey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017 -
That’s going to grate on fan bases that view success as a birthright.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023 -
The mission for me was just to be self-aware and to know that being happy is your birthright.
— Nerisha Penrose, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2017 -
Honkala said people tend to forget that wealth isn’t a birthright.
— Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017 -
These things should be a birthright, not a battleground.
— Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2021 -
All Eli wants is to reclaim the property that was his birthright.
— Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2022 -
Her other, less appealing birthright was a hole in the heart.
— Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Feb. 2022 -
To see yourself as that magnetic life force and to know joy as your birthright.
— Kyle Beechey, Bon Appétit, 29 June 2021 -
For more than two decades, elite goalkeeping has felt like a birthright of the United States squad.
— Andrew Keh, New York Times, 5 June 2019 -
Mark is Viltrumite, and his alien birthright is the thing that will determine the course of his life.
— Oliver Sava, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2021 -
His skill as a writer and his birthright as a New Orleanian equip him for the task.
— Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021 -
And fragments as fruition, and exile like a birthright, and, as the sun bleeds out one evening like a suicide, suicide.
— Christian Wiman, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021 -
But you’ve been stuck in infancy, while Amazon and Google take your birthright.
— Will Hall, Recode, 4 June 2018 -
Ten points from Jon for stealing her thunder/birthright.
— Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 24 Aug. 2017 -
Every one of you and every one of your grandchildren—this is your birthright, to hear a wolf howling in the wild.
— National Geographic, 11 June 2017 -
By Viserys slaying the great beast (with most of the heavy lifting done by his royal retinue) the boy's birthright to the throne would be sealed.
— Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2022 -
Some Australians complain they are being robbed of a birthright.
— The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019 -
For white men across the Western world, special rights and privileges once came as a birthright.
— New York Times, 9 May 2018 -
Water was in our blood, and therefore, swimming was our birthright.
— Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 5 July 2022 -
Trump has pushed to end birthright citizenship since his time in the Oval Office.
— Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2024 -
The Americans view the Olympic basketball gold as their birthright.
— Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Aug. 2021 -
The price went to $2 a gallon overnight, a shock in a country where free gas was seen as practically a birthright.
— Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020 -
King Charles III, the longest-serving heir to the throne, is finally assuming his birthright at the age of 73.
— Alexander Smith, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022 -
And on a more personal level, this is her birthright that her father gave her.
— James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2022 -
Trump vowed to try to end birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants living in the country illegally — a move that legal experts say is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.
— Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2024
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