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Example sentences for "nourishes"

Lexicographically close words:
nourice; nourish; nourished; nourisher; nourishers; nourisheth; nourishing; nourishment; nourrir; nourriture
  1. Let us now return to the blood which nourishes the organs.

  2. And this explains why a small slice of meat nourishes you more than a whole plateful of salad.

  3. It is on creeds that strong men are nourished, and that which nourishes the leaders into eminence is necessary to keep the masses from sinking.

  4. Your gentle, verdant vigor nourishes no lust of blood.

  5. I do not believe that such places, such scenes, such a fashion of life ever nourishes a vigorous womanhood or manhood.

  6. The Wanderer finds writing irksome; the Saunterer is never so well or so happy as when he can write; his food nourishes him better, the atmosphere is sweeter, the days are brighter.

  7. The strata are all horizontal, and the steepest mountain-slopes clothed with soil that nourishes large forest growths.

  8. So beautiful is not the mossy fountain That sings like bard and nourishes like mother!

  9. The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

  10. Wood nourishes the fire that consumes it.

  11. The scars on trees grow to a greater thickness than is required by the sap of the limb which nourishes them.

  12. The young man had the impressionable, excitable temperament common to Parisian genius,--especially when it nourishes itself on absinthe.

  13. Though revolutions are not made with rose-water, it is rose-water that nourishes their roots.

  14. Its name, as previously stated, is nutrition, and the definition corresponding to the name is: an assimilation of that which nourishes to that which receives nourishments.

  15. Yes indeed, she shapes and nourishes and increases them through and through, not on the outside only.

  16. Perpetual moisture nourishes this dripping forest: and pendulous mosses and lichens are met with in profusion.

  17. That which is put into the stomach, nourishes the legs, and that which enters the same receptacle, may surely disease the like parts.

  18. Thus, a moderate meal nourishes and refreshes; but the same food taken in too great abundance, as surely will bring disease; and it is of too much food that I have to complain, when I speak of the bowels as associated with paralysis.

  19. Because, as stated in De Anima ii, food nourishes by being converted into the substance of the individual nourished.

  20. Nor does it matter whether it nourishes or not, whether it be taken by itself or with other things, provided it be taken by way of food or drink.

  21. But whatever nourishes enters into the body.

  22. Further, the Philosopher says (De Anima ii) that "food nourishes according as it is a substance, but it gives increase by reason of its quantity.

  23. It is thus that nature itself nourishes beings until their birth.

  24. The mouth, which nourishes the body by means of material food, also diffuses abroad speech and thought.

  25. The cow Audhumla nourishes with her milk Ymir, the first of the giants.

  26. It creates and nourishes the bitterest animosity against the free blacks.

  27. When I think of that, my food, as Walt Whitman says, nourishes me more.

  28. For the multitude rules us like a force of nature, nourishes us with its feelings.

  29. We all feel socially; we cannot think away the others who are round us and in front of us any more than we can think away the air that nourishes us.

  30. He keeps the hearth clean and nourishes the fire.

  31. He has passed into the quiet and lovely tradition that surrounds and nourishes that place we all love so well.

  32. All the vegetable kingdom, and a great part of the animal, are at their disposal; they might live tender and indolent, as the child sleeps at its ease on the maternal placenta which nourishes its slothfulness.

  33. It nourishes the young larva which as yet is incapable of action, but which, in due time, emerging from its vegetation in the egg, will move freely to and fro, and seek its own sustenance.

  34. But taking into consideration that every plant at the least nourishes three, we obtain the result, according to the number of known plants, of three hundred and sixty thousand species of insects!

  35. Nearly every plant nourishes grubs, which are embellished with the most varied, and frequently the most dazzling colours.

  36. The very pebble, the hard flint, once lived, and now nourishes life.

  37. The expansion of the placenta and membranes is as difficult to conceive as that of the foetus; and we might say, with equal propriety, that the foetus nourishes the placenta, as that the placenta nourishes the foetus.

  38. If 'tis wishwash, I nourishes most onChristian feelin's, and loses my thirst.

  39. There is an eye in nature that kills as soon as it sees, the eye of a serpent; no eye in nature that nourishes us by looking upon us; but thine eye, O Lord, does so.

  40. The brooding note is when He gathers them under His wings, warms their hearts with the comforts of His love, nourishes their souls with close fellowship with Himself, and refreshes their spirits with the overflowings of joy in the Holy Ghost.

  41. I say, it is the very father and mother of them; it both begets them, and also nourishes them up, till they come to their cursed maturity in the bosom of him that entertains them.

  42. Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can Get goal for goal of youth.

  43. Like all these beings reared in solitude remote from the turmoil of life, Semiramis nourishes an impatient longing to be out in the world.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nourishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.