Sentence examples for as a native son from inspiring English sources

Mays called Harlem home, and in return Harlem embraced him as a native son.

He also made an appeal as a native son, saying repeatedly, "you know who I am".

Arkansas also proudly claims one-time world heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston as a native son.

This has always been Mr. Hauben's aim as a native son and artist of an oft-maligned borough.

No one manages the same brevity of condemnation or accuracy of insult as a native son or daughter.

The interest in Kerouac is so much gravy for the Town of Huntington, which claims Whitman as a native son.

Although Yun speaks through a translator in a formal reception room at the Seoul headquarters, he seems to relish the battle for the consumer market as much as 46-year-old Kim, a native son he enticed back in 1999 from a Dun & Bradstreet software unit.

Gasol owes his popularity to the local Hispanic community, which treats him as if he were a native son.

It seemed as though Mr. Stoiber, a native son and lifelong resident of Bavaria, might appeal to a broader array of German voters.

Though welcomed in Indonesia as if he were a native son, and garlanded in Delhi for backing India's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, he failed to achieve his main goals.

His family had lived in Crawford since the eighteen-eighties, so he had watched with bemusement as Bush cast himself as both a rancher and a native son.