UPBRINGING in a Sentence

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A better course than to attempt to answer that question would be to recount the story of Tientietnikov's boyhood and upbringing.

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 Meanings and Examples of UPBRINGING
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upbringing
 n.  process of bringing up, nourishing, or maintaining; training; education
Classic Sentence:
1  Between artists and cultured socialists, Constance and her sister Hilda had had what might be called an aesthetically unconventional upbringing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  A better course than to attempt to answer that question would be to recount the story of Tientietnikov's boyhood and upbringing.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  His manners argue a good upbringing.
2  I thought that my upbringing was "normal", whatever that is.
3  I wonder what it was about her upbringing that made her so insecure.
4  Mine was a conventional family upbringing.
5  He had a normal middle - class upbringing.
6  The researchers found that upbringing is an important factor in the investment behavior of young people.
7  Victor's upbringing is a formative influence in his early life.
8  Looking as frail as eggshells, she deflected questions with a hint of asperity, as any woman of her upbringing might have done.