How to Use birthright in a Sentence
birthright
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He has been stripped of being a prince, which was his birthright.
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Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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One’s name and face are what some people might call a birthright.
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Sally Jenkins,
courant.com,
25 June 2019
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Your birthright as a child of God is intact.
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Elsa Dardie S. Dunlap,
Christian Science Monitor,
19 Aug. 2025
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But at the same time, this thing that my father gave me, my birthright, was stolen.
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James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Oct. 2022
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That’s going to grate on fan bases that view success as a birthright.
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Globe Staff,
BostonGlobe.com,
9 Aug. 2023
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Honkala said people tend to forget that wealth isn’t a birthright.
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Tirdad Derakhshani,
Philly.com,
20 Oct. 2017
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Just by birthright, men are on top of the world and the head of the family.
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Isabelle Khurshudyan,
Washington Post,
28 Feb. 2018
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Her other, less appealing birthright was a hole in the heart.
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Eric Boodman,
STAT,
18 Feb. 2022
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To see yourself as that magnetic life force and to know joy as your birthright.
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Kyle Beechey,
Bon Appétit,
29 June 2021
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Water was in our blood, and therefore, swimming was our birthright.
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Ineye Komonibo,
refinery29.com,
5 July 2022
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For decades, guns have been a birthright among conservatives.
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Philip Elliott,
Time,
26 Jan. 2026
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The lies about your birthright, your faith, your patriotism.
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Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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The mission for me was just to be self-aware and to know that being happy is your birthright.
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Nerisha Penrose,
Billboard,
13 Oct. 2017
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Everybody who’s born in the UK has a birthright to that.
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Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
8 May 2026
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All Eli wants is to reclaim the property that was his birthright.
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Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Nov. 2022
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And on a more personal level, this is her birthright that her father gave her.
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James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Oct. 2022
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Because what type of man looks his daughter in the eyes, only to deny her birthright.
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Taylor Crumpton,
TIME,
10 Sep. 2024
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We’re told in ways both overt and subtle that emotional labor is our birthright.
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Gemma Hartley,
Quartz,
18 June 2019
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Some Australians complain they are being robbed of a birthright.
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The Economist,
24 Oct. 2019
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Why do all these people get access to my birthright—not just before me but that might be denied to me?
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Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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For decades, all Venezuelans enjoyed the perks of living in a land where oil was a birthright.
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The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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Ellis affirmed that there was no such thing as laziness on this trip, as rest was and always will be her birthright.
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Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
18 Sep. 2023
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Here was the ambitious son of a business legend who seemed to see moguldom as his birthright.
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Reeves Wiedeman,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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On the contrary, your worthiness as a birthright is your very unique secret sauce to living out loud.
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Shirin Etessam,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2022
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Because meat is linked to manhood, carnivory promises a way to pump up a shrivelled birthright.
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Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
25 Sep. 2023
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And fragments as fruition, and exile like a birthright, and, as the sun bleeds out one evening like a suicide, suicide.
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Christian Wiman,
The New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2021
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How does that message even square with Christ’s message of our inherent worth by birthright?
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Brooke Obie,
The Root,
22 Jan. 2018
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But you’ve been stuck in infancy, while Amazon and Google take your birthright.
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Will Hall,
Recode,
4 June 2018
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For white men across the Western world, special rights and privileges once came as a birthright.
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New York Times,
9 May 2018
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In Richardson’s words, pleasure is our birthright as Black women.
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Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
10 June 2022
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