Example sentences for: upbringing

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

  • This is one of those decisions that two people must make based on their values, circumstances, upbringing, and beliefs.

  • Nothing in Bruce Zucker's upbringing seems to have prepared him for his life's work defending the poor.

  • A generation ago, adoption agencies considered mental illness to be strictly a product of poor upbringing, and too private and unpleasant to disclose to prospective parents.

  • Rockefeller's harsh Baptist upbringing made him the perfect instrument of the marketplace, but it also set up a tortured cycle inside him.

  • As Hannah, who grows from spiky prole to uneasy denizen of the middle class, she's the sort of woman who's underrepresented in movies: smart and aggressive and desperately unhappy about the random injustices of her upbringing.


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