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
It is simply because their bringing-up has consisted in a persistent inoculation with the material facts of life, and a correspondingly persistent elimination of all imaginative ideas.
From The Curse of Education by Gorst, Harold Edward
I am sure she would think that you were no credit to her bringing-up.
From Ruby at School by Paull, Minnie E.
It was only the very strong ones who could survive their bringing-up.
From The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History by Kingsley, Rose Georgina
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