How to Use birthright in a Sentence

birthright

noun

• Because what type of man looks his daughter in the eyes, only to deny her birthright.
  — Taylor Crumpton, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
• On the campaign trail, Trump also pledged to end birthright citizenship for children of parents living in the U.S. illegally.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 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
• On the contrary, within its pages, Hersey beautifully delineates through the use of vintage hymns, prayer books, and abolitionist pamphlets, that rest is a birthright and a necessity and an anecdote for a tired world.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024