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
But Mrs. Lacey detects a secret sarcasm in the phrase about the bringing-up.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
Perhaps his errors were due to a bad bringing-up, to deplorable examples, alas!...
From A Nest of Spies by Marcel Allain
Mind you, Molly, I know Sylvia through and through and there's no harm in her—it's just the bringing-up and the spoiling and the admiration.
From The Girl at Central by Geraldine Bonner
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