CULTURE in a Sentence

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252 example sentences for CULTURE, such as:

1. He is a man of culture.
2. We are living in a consumer culture.
3. She is a woman of considerable culture.
4. She's very keen to learn about Japanese culture.
5. Death is one of the great taboos in our culture.

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 Meanings and Examples of CULTURE
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culture
 n.  all the knowledge and values shared by a society ; foster; raising of plants or animals
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  Below, near the pavilion, was standing an adjutant-general of whom Alexey Alexandrovitch had a high opinion, noted for his intelligence and culture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
2  Konstantin Levin regarded his brother as a man of immense intellect and culture, as generous in the highest sense of the word, and possessed of a special faculty for working for the public good.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
3  But he could not say "a fool," because Sviazhsky was unmistakably clever, and moreover, a highly cultivated man, who was exceptionally modest over his culture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
4  Let us try to look upon the labor force not as an abstract force, but as the Russian peasant with his instincts, and we shall arrange our system of culture in accordance with that.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 28
5  The whole system of culture, the chief element in the condition of the people, must be completely transformed.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
6  "I am not expressing my own opinion of either form of culture," Sergey Ivanovitch said, holding out his glass with a smile of condescension, as to a child.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
7  "That will come," was the consoling reassurance given him by Golenishtchev, in whose view Vronsky had both talent, and what was most important, culture, giving him a wider outlook on art.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 13
8  The colonel too talked of the opera, and about culture.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 6
9  Here people understood that a man is in duty bound to live for himself, as every man of culture should live.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 20
10  This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In I
11  Men call the shadow prejudice, and learnedly explain it as the natural defence of culture against barbarism, learning against ignorance, purity against crime, the "higher" against the "lower" races.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In I
12  It not only called the school-mistresses through the benevolent agencies and built them schoolhouses, but it helped discover and support such apostles of human culture as Edmund Ware, Samuel Armstrong, and Erastus Cravath.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
13  But now and then the crisscross rails or straight palings break into view, and then we know a touch of culture is near.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  This was an added advantage, for the reason that I found the white people possessing a degree of culture and education that is not surpassed by many localities.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
15  I was asked now to speak to an audience composed of the wealth and culture of the white South, the representatives of my former masters.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We are living in a consumer culture.
17  Not returning phone calls is a grave crime in today's culture.
18  Their starting point is bourgeois despotism, which in culture becomes the cultural despotism of the bourgeoisie.
19  She's very keen to learn about Japanese culture.
20  She's studying modern Japanese language and culture.
21  She is a woman of considerable culture.
22  He is a man of culture.
23  Tradition and culture are often at variance with the needs of modern living.
24  Beauty is forever yoked to youth in our culture.
25  The aim of the culture festival is to promote friendship between the two countries.
26  Death is one of the great taboos in our culture.
27  She got some books out of the library and immersed herself in Jewish history and culture.
28  He was one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Indian culture.
29  Callum, recently arrived in Glasgow, is jobless, homeless, friendless, and suffering from culture shock.
30  The monarchy in England plays an important role in British culture.