by origin

Example Sentences

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Ms. Shchehlova was Russian by origin, and her bookshelves were full of Russian classics.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2022

In France, where the melting pot is based on assimilation and officials are banned from counting people by origin, “we are supposed to be equal but only if we are identical,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022

The top countries by origin of asylum seekers in the EU since 2014 are Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, all countries with recent or ongoing conflicts.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2018

Now, more than a fifth of Bradford’s 526, 400 people are Pakistani by origin, the Dawood family among them.

From Time • Jun. 19, 2015

A Corsican by origin, he retained the national sensibility and an enormous power of endurance both physical and intellectual, together with the dogged persistence found in the medieval Corsicans.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan