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Example sentences for: upbringing

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

Rockefeller's harsh Baptist upbringing made him the perfect instrument of the marketplace, but it also set up a tortured cycle inside him.
Their upbringing was a nightmare.
And she did it, as Cook makes clear, in spite of her class and upbringing, which she saw past only with great difficulty.
So, even if Freud and Skinner had wholly succeeded in explaining how upbringing and social experience shape us, it all would have been a waste of time?
There are several stories about "riding the rods," as illegally riding trains was called (Ellison did this as a college student), as well as tales about growing up in the Midwest, with Ellison making use of his Oklahoma upbringing.