TEACH in a Sentence

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For TEACH, below is one of 352 sentences:
Ellen ignored all things contrary to her ideas of propriety and tried to teach Scarlett to do the same, but with poor success.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEACH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
teach
 v.  impart skills or knowledge to
 n.  an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
Classic Sentence: (190 in 13 pages)
1  There was no need to teach any of the men to shoot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  She told herself that the child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Ellen ignored all things contrary to her ideas of propriety and tried to teach Scarlett to do the same, but with poor success.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  But it had always been a struggle to teach Scarlett that most of her natural impulses were unladylike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  It taught me what people really are, but it didn't teach me how to live with them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  That would teach them a little courtesy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
7  That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
8  To this end, he built a hurdle in the back yard and paid Wash, one of Uncle Peter's small nephews, twenty-five cents a day to teach Mr. Butler to jump.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
9  And that's all you need teach in Sunday School.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  SHE had tripped into the meadow to teach the lambs a pretty educational dance and found that the lambs were wolves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  I think I'll go teach in some other town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  I could run an office or a library, or nurse and teach children.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  I make my first communion very young; what the Church teach seem plain to me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
14  Marek was strong, and Ambrosch worked him hard; but he could never teach him to cultivate corn, I remember.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
15  She is going to teach me to sew.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
Example Sentence: (162 in 11 pages)
16  You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
17  One of the effective measures to minimize the dangers of driving is to teach people to obey all the rules of the road.
18  If I can't make a living at painting, at least I can teach someone else to paint.
19  In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
20  Never offer to teach fish to swim.
21  Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more of who you are.
22  The story without tortuous how can teach people to grow.
23  There is a tutor to teach the children while they're in hospital.
24  Working together, the staff developed numerous ways to use the neighborhood around the school to teach academic skills.
25  I arrive at nine o'clock, teach until twelve thirty and then have a meal; that is my morning routine.
26  Any experience can teach and strengthen you, but particularly the more difficult ones.
27  The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweet.
28  Teachers are expected to teach a range of subjects right across the curriculum.
29  Multitude of years should teach wisdom.
30  Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.