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hail from

vb. to be a native of, to come from, to originate from; to have as one's birth place or residence

Usage examples of "hail from".

It's true that they don't exactly smother you with affection, which takes a little getting used to if you hail from a more gregarious part of the world, like anywhere else.

They were still in the traverse when they heard a hail from the hilltop.

Their voices filled the hail from hearthstone to rooftree, and I trembled inside myself: Llew, the name of Albion's savior, was now my name.

But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze.