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Example sentences for "educate"

Lexicographically close words:
edlen; edler; educability; educable; educacion; educated; educates; educating; education; educational
  1. Is the net tendency of machinery to make labour more monotonous or less, to educate the worker or to brutalise him?

  2. Educate the children's brains, give them right understanding, and then let evil do its worst against them, they'll have a sure base to fight it from.

  3. Mr. Browning told her all he knew of the girl, and she continued, "Do you intend to educate her?

  4. When the villagers learned that Mr. Browning intended to educate Rosamond and treat her as his equal, they ascribed it wholly to the influence of his sister, who, of course, had suggested to him an act which seemed every way right and proper.

  5. She is the child of my husband's sister, and we have concluded to educate her for a teacher, so I wish, you to be very thorough with her in all those stupid things which Arabella is not to study.

  6. Wouldn't Susan be shocked if she knew it, and won't she be horrified when I tell her I am going to educate the girl.

  7. Just as Billy Sunday is the price we pay for failing to educate our base-ball players, so Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy is the price we pay for failing to educate our farmer's daughters.

  8. Dead Cats# For more than a hundred years the Anglican clergy have been fighting with every resource at their command the liberal and enlightened men of England who wished to educate the masses of the people.

  9. Its purpose is to educate the child in terms of his environment, to the end that his life may be fuller and richer.

  10. It is not the purpose of an agricultural college to make men farmers, but to educate farmers.

  11. It is there that we find our chief sphere of duty, that we learn the discipline of work, and that we educate ourselves in that patience, diligence, and endurance which shape and consolidate the character.

  12. Be it your care, then, to train up mothers who shall know how to educate their children.

  13. She had her children to educate and bring up, a large household to govern, and extensive estates to manage, all of which she accomplished with complete success.

  14. Thus, we may educate ourselves in a happy disposition, as well as in a morbid one.

  15. The Romans were accustomed to take the sons of tributary princes and educate them at Rome, thus holding a security for the continued loyalty of the conquered nation and also instilling a possible future ruler with ideas of Roman civilization.

  16. This movement of thought must push on the ages: it must start the wheels of reason aright, educate the affections to higher resources, and leave Christianity unbiased by the superstitions of a senior period.

  17. What you educate is not for you alone, but it is for the whole world.

  18. She must not be allowed to have an eye single to making an industrial place for herself; nor can those who educate her fail to see the double work she must do.

  19. Must we then educate the girl to be a homemaker, and keep her out of the industrial life which has claimed her so swiftly and in which she has found so much of her emancipation?

  20. Shall we then frankly educate our girls for marriage--"dangle a wedding ring ever before their eyes"?

  21. Men as well as women fear for their ability to care for and educate large families.

  22. We must rather recognize her double vocation and, difficult though it seem, must educate her for both phases of her "business.

  23. It may be very well to educate the mind to take things coolly," said I, "but I'd a great deal rather educate my mind not to get me into such fixes.

  24. Does not a sick child in a family educate all around it to tenderness and self-denial?

  25. He would seem to say to each man, "It is no small thing to have been entrusted by God with the care of a soul which you may educate for fitness for eternal life.

  26. In short, educate for what you require and educate most for the greatest things you require, and in manner such that everyone may be equipped to stand anywhere without help, and fight a good battle.

  27. The appeal that won them was not only the practical appeal of the value of the money after the war for themselves, to buy a house, to provide for old age, to educate the children.

  28. We have not been content to say only "save," we have tried to educate our people on finance and economics.

  29. No women knew better how to organize, no women better how to educate and win help.

  30. This was when he was telling me of the effect of his uncle's broken promise to educate him.

  31. If Douglas had taken his initial hurt in life from his uncle's failure to educate him, I had begun the weaving of my destiny with these threads which my father had bequeathed to me.

  32. His superhuman energy was intensified by the fact that he had been deprived of an opportunity to educate himself.

  33. If Douglas had taken an impetus in life from his uncle's failure to educate him, what direction had my life been given by my father's marriage and Zoe?

  34. He did not think that the government should educate more young men than were necessary to fill the annual vacancies in the army.

  35. As late as in 1615, only five years before the final collapse of Bohemia, the Diet decided that all those who became naturalised Bohemians should be bound to instruct and educate their children in the language of the country.

  36. It is now necessary that we should educate ourselves and work in accordance with the demands of culture and intellect.

  37. If the son be a child and is not able to carry on his father’s duty, one-third of the field and garden shall be given to his mother to educate him.

  38. With that proviso, the newly married pair entered into full use of the deceased’s property and were bound to educate the children until grown up.

  39. At the inn where we dined, the gentlewoman said that she had done her best to educate her children; and particularly that she had never suffered them to be a moment idle.

  40. I wish, Madam, you would educate me too; for I have been an idle fellow all my life.

  41. The country mother will let pass one of the rarest forms of opportunity for refining and beautifying the character of her daughter if she does not educate the latter rightly in respect to these conventionalities.

  42. As her position in the rural home has been already too much isolated, an exclusive women's college is least to be desired as a place to educate the country girl.

  43. I promised to educate him, to take charge of his future--and all my plans are destroyed!

  44. I would therefore urge that if we are really to grapple with these moral evils, we should simplify our standard of living, and educate our girls very differently to what, at least in England, we are doing.

  45. Women must educate women; those who know must teach those who are in ignorance.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "educate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advance; ameliorate; amend; better; boost; break; bring; catechize; civilize; condition; cultivate; demonstrate; direct; discipline; edify; educate; elevate; emend; enhance; enlighten; enrich; fatten; favor; forward; ground; guide; improve; inform; instruct; lard; lift; meliorate; mend; nurture; prepare; prime; promote; raise; rear; refine; reform; school; socialize; teach; train; transfigure; transform; tutor; upgrade; uplift


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    educated people; educated woman