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Example sentences for: cultivate

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The women wear traditional dirndl costumes with headscarf and apron, while their husbands, dressed all in black with broad-rimmed hats, cultivate the heavy beards of Old Testament prophets.
Cultivate listening, laughing at the right points, and occasionally saying: "Right on!"
"American cockiness over its display of military technology in the Gulf and Yugoslavia, and smugness over its longest post-war prosperity streak, can blind it to a need to cultivate its relations with Russia beyond promoting democratisation.
In a letter to Charles Eliot Norton--like Hall and Francis James Child, a member of the class of '46--Whitney wrote resignedly, Anyhow, one takes a kind of wicked satisfaction in seeing that England has to come even to America for her scholars in that department of Oriental study which it is most her duty and interest to cultivate.
Then came the third stage early in the twentieth century, when Santa Fe was invaded by a more sophisticated, in some cases artistic, cosmopolitan kind of Anglo-American that recognized the esthetic value and appreciated the exotic charm of the surviving bits of the colonial town and began to cultivate a revival.