bringing-up
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Back then, we really did have to research what to eat. "We started looking at Eastern and Indian food and were really expanding our cultural horizons from our bringing-up in the North East.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2017
Virginian by birth she is Middle-Western by adoption and bringing-up.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was altogether too intimate an inquiry, and the dowager, failing to bury her blushes in the opulent group of butter-colored flowers that she was bending over to admire, took refuge in her bringing-up.
From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton
After thirteen years of the most careful bringing-up there is complete and absolute failure.
From A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
When old Mr. Gilbert Clennam proposed his orphan nephew to my father for my husband, my father impressed upon me that his bringing-up had been, like mine, one of severe restraint.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
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