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Example sentences for "nurture"

Lexicographically close words:
nursing; nursings; nursling; nurslings; nurst; nurtured; nurtures; nurturing; nus; nusquam
  1. Bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  2. We traced the infant through the holy influences received at a Christian mother's knee, and in the nurture of a Christian home.

  3. Nay, I am not sure that you would have been as incredulous now, if told that the wild outlaw before you had some claim by birth or by nurture to the rank of gentleman, as you would had you seen the gay spendthrift in his gaudy day.

  4. The stillness of such wastes of sward, such deeps of woodland, induced the nurture of revery, gravely soft and lulling.

  5. It is called the nurture and admonition of the Lord, because the Lord commandeth it, and because it is the doctrine concerning the Lord, and the doctrine of his teaching, and the doctrine that leadeth to him.

  6. They are bound to bring "them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord," Eph.

  7. God; for "the nurture and admonition of the Lord" containeth that.

  8. Parents must bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord," Eph.

  9. I might enlarge on the nurture and education of your rivals, but that would be tedious; and what I have said is a sufficient sample of what remains to be said.

  10. Hale had been a Methodist, brought up in that faith literally by parents who had had him baptized when he was an infant and who had kept the promise made then to bring him up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  11. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

  12. It is the firefighters' courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

  13. Even the Holy Scriptures, which were now circulated everywhere, while they imparted light and nurture to the sincere inquirer after truth, were the source also whence an eccentric fanaticism contrived to extort the virulent poison.

  14. Am I to blame, if slavish nurture crushed Love's tender germ within my youthful heart?

  15. The care of her three beautiful children occupied much of her attention, and in their nurture the streams of her affection deepened and widened, until they embraced all who came within the sphere of her influence.

  16. She shall have the nurture of a princess in the house of the Egyptian, for God hath made her unto me as Moses to the daughter of Pharaoh.

  17. First, It was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy Name.

  18. It was ordained for the increase of mankind according to the will | of God, and that children might be brought up in the fear and | nurture of the Lord and to the praise of his holy Name.

  19. Italy, Silvius of Alban name, the child of thine age, whom late in thy length of days thy wife Lavinia shall nurture in the woodland, king and father of kings; from him in Alba the Long shall our house have dominion.

  20. Here was her armour, here her chariot; even now, if fate permit, the goddess strives to nurture it for queen of the nations.

  21. This Polydorus once with great weight of gold had hapless Priam sent in secret to the nurture of the Thracian king, when now he was losing trust in the arms of Dardania, and saw his city leaguered round about.

  22. Not thus did my warrior father Opheltes rear and nurture me amid the Argive terror and the agony of Troy, nor thus have I borne myself by thy side while following noble Aeneas to his utmost fate.

  23. A drink of asses’ milk would nurture the swine, but wouldst thou then expect his song to change from Want, Want, Want?

  24. It is a violation of a just and divine law, opposed to the nurture and education of children, and inconsistent with the due equality of the sexes.

  25. We may go further and say that even then the tie of relationship does not become totally extinct, inasmuch as the party surviving has to provide for the nurture and education of children, should there be any.

  26. True, Madam; but are we not commanded to 'train up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord!

  27. A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise.

  28. Foster mother, a woman who takes a mother's place in the nurture and care of a child; a nurse.

  29. Defn: To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility.

  30. To nurture is to train up with a fostering care, like that of a mother; as, to nurture into strength; to nurture in sound principles.

  31. A born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick.

  32. Defn: To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children.

  33. We are now to see how, helped by his wealth, the father was able to gratify a pleasant whimsey of his own in the nurture of his boy.

  34. Yes; Louise did nurture a secret love," said Madelaine scornfully, "and for a man unworthy of her.

  35. Besides, their attention is so much engaged with the necessary nurture of their children, that nature has made them fittest for domestic cares.

  36. And a good and mild school it be, bringing them up in the name and nurture of the Holy Child Jesus, to whom it is dedicated.

  37. So they went forth together, while Giles again hugged himself in his doleful conceit, marvelling how a youth of birth and nurture could walk the streets on a Sunday with a scarecrow such as that!

  38. Now tell me, dearest husband, I pray thee tell me true, Who were thy parents, and what land thy birth and nurture knew?

  39. Twas Tagus' banks to me a child my home and nurture gave; Ungrateful land, that lets me pine unransomed as a slave.

  40. Rather, he was a growing plant, waiting for her skill to nurture him into blossom and fruitage.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nurture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abet; advance; alimentation; ameliorate; amend; apprentice; apprenticeship; bear; better; board; boost; bosom; bread; break; breed; breeding; bring; care; chaperon; cherish; civilize; clip; coddle; condition; conditioning; conserve; cosset; countenance; cradle; cultivate; cultivation; culture; develop; development; discipline; drill; edify; educate; elevate; embrace; emend; encourage; endowment; enhance; enlighten; enrich; entertain; exercise; farm; fatten; favor; feed; fit; foment; fondle; food; form; forward; groom; grooming; grow; grub; harbor; hatch; have; hold; hug; improve; improvement; invite; keep; lactate; lard; lift; livelihood; living; maintain; maintenance; manna; meat; meliorate; mend; mind; mother; mothering; nourish; nourishment; nurse; nurture; nutriment; pamper; pap; practice; preparation; prepare; preserve; promote; protect; provender; provision; raise; raising; ranch; ready; rear; rearing; refection; refine; reform; refreshment; rehearsal; rehearse; run; shepherd; socialize; stuff; subsidy; subsistence; subvention; suckle; support; sustain; sustenance; tend; train; training; transfigure; transform; treasure; upbringing; upgrade; upkeep; uplift; viands; watch