Example sentences for: cultivate

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

  • "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.

  • Even as we strive to improve the consistency of care—and striving is clearly a very good idea—we must continue to cultivate novelty and originality, rather than penalize it.

  • Shortly after her arrival, Preston convenes members of her new lab to filter those seeking financial and other derivative rewards from the truly devoted, who are motivated solely by their “sense of wonder and amazement” and their desire to “cultivate what Einstein referred to as ‘holy curiosity.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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