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birthright - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- being: This is the birthright of every human being on the planet.
- citizen: The summing-up here was such as to deny Bentley that fair trial which was the birthright of every British citizen.
- man: The natural birthright of man is health, freedom and happiness.
- child: Excellent teaching gives children the life chances they deserve; enjoyment is the birthright of every child.
- people: No Mr. Blair - we're not going to let you sell the birthright of the British people.
- freedom: S. The tyrant is the imaginary ME who has usurped the Good which is our birthright of freedom.
Converse of object
- have: Going against ourselves Like the flower, we humans have the same birthright.
- sell: No Mr. Blair - we're not going to let you sell the birthright of the British people.
- claim: Like Sadr, they claim the birthright of their own families.
- lose: Britain is about to lose that birthright of the law and with it, its nationhood.
Preposition: for
- mess: Earlier, Jacob had forced his hungry brother to sell him his birthright for a mess of potage.
- bowl: Jacob was chosen, Esau was hated, and Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of stew.
Adjective modifier
- natural: All these skills are the natural birthright of any properly educated human being.
- British: Yet the determination of Ulster's Loyalists to retain their British birthright has never diminished.
- democratic: Its fear of the class below it now outweighed its willingness to fight for its democratic birthright.
- common: The land, our common birthright, is being stolen to make a small number of wealthy people even richer.
- own: Too notorious to reclaim her own birthright, Boudica strives instead to return her daughters to their heritage.
- ancient: The new identity being forged for Hull could not happen without its ancient birthright: the sea.
Noun used with modifier
- thy: And Iacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
- family: Esau was the oldest and therefore the traditional heir to the family birthright.
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