Example sentences for: upbringing

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

  • 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.

  • This all means that "parents have returned to adolescent upbringing in ways that have rendered their children's normally destructive impulses mute."

  • The son of a Bethlehem Steel executive in New York, he came to the Bethlehem campus from an affluent upbringing on Long Island.

  • Some recipients grew up poor and want to give back, while others feel the need despite having a middle-class upbringing.

  • He emphasized his small-town upbringing and his distance from the current Washington scene.


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