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
I sort of wondered if he was to blame, and managed to lay all the fault on his city bringing-up.
From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.
Despite the taint of his early bringing-up, it will be easy to operate upon a child of that age.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne
But Mrs. Lacey detects a secret sarcasm in the phrase about the bringing-up.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
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