Example Sentences

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First it made me think of the many great musicians, from Isaac Stern to Leonard Bernstein, who loved to teach and who were nurturing, kind, and devoted to their pupils.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2018

Maggie Dunham Jordahl, who has worked at three Trader Joe’s stores, said managers were nurturing and helpful.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016

Since you say you were nurturing and attentive parents, I assume you engaged professionals to figure out what was going on with your son and got no definitive answers.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2012

Horner has demonstrated that some dinosaurs were nurturing parents, raising their young in large nesting colonies and bringing their offspring berries and green vegetation, much as do birds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes the pain of our grief would break through the surface and threaten the fragile friendships we were nurturing.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson