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Example sentences for: taught

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I was taught at school that Hamlet was referring to falconry when he explained to Horatio that he was but mad north-northwest.
The German system of saying numbers in reverse order (like the old English four and twenty ) may even make calculations easier, as children are usually taught to start with the units column before moving on to the tens and hundreds.
Clinton said on Meet the Press that his weekend speech to a gay-rights group was an all-American blow for civil rights, although he confided that he didn't think the gay alternative should be taught in school.
I grew up being taught that people should not make loud noises when eating in public.
Most girls get some sort of instruction, but dangerous concepts like pleasure and love are scrupulously avoided; we're taught to think of ourselves as scary coils of tubing that are hard to keep clean, and which periodically leak.