Example sentences for: cultivate

How can you use “cultivate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This province of ranches and oil derricks likes to cultivate the image of Canada’s Wild West.

  • [S]aying that our only hope is to cultivate a kind of stoned aesthetic detachment whereby even a man with his brains blown out becomes an object of beauty and a signpost to a Higher Power.

  • "I did not cultivate Monica," she tells the paper, "she cultivated me."

  • To see Pol Pot today is to be reminded of Voltaire: "We must cultivate our ..."

  • The principle of national self-determination, urged so adamantly in the twentieth century, derives from the same source: every nation is entitled to preserve its own culture, cultivate its language, and express itself as a subject of the international community.


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