CULTIVATE in a Sentence
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99 example sentences for CULTIVATE, such as:
1. The land was too rocky to cultivate.
2. Father tries to cultivate my love for art.
3. We should each cultivate our own little corner.
4. Most of the land there is too poor to cultivate.
5. This method of cultivation produces higher yield.
2. Father tries to cultivate my love for art.
3. We should each cultivate our own little corner.
4. Most of the land there is too poor to cultivate.
5. This method of cultivation produces higher yield.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CULTIVATE
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cultivate
v. prepare for crops
v. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1 "This lady owns by no means a poor village," said Chichikov to himself; wherefore he decided then and there to have a talk with his hostess, and to cultivate her closer acquaintance.
2 Yet all the while he contrived to remain clean and neat, to preserve a cheerful expression of countenance, and even to cultivate a certain elegance of movement.
3 Ladies considered him enchantingly romantic, but he did not cultivate ladies' acquaintance.
4 Half an hour later, the Rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon's temple, which every Freemason should cultivate in himself.
5 You don't care to make people like you, to go into good society, and cultivate your manners and tastes.
6 You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
7 I took all possible methods to cultivate this favourable disposition.
8 Really, it took a lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.
9 Ned Silverton's relation to Stancy seemed, for instance, closer and less clear than any natural affinities would warrant; and both appeared united in the effort to cultivate Freddy Van Osburgh's growing taste for Mrs. Hatch.
10 Marek was strong, and Ambrosch worked him hard; but he could never teach him to cultivate corn, I remember.
11 In proportion as leisure came to him with fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
12 Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few plants which love shade and dampness.
13 We should each cultivate our own little corner.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
14 His first act was to establish himself as near to his ancestral home as he could, and his second was to cultivate a friendship with Sir Charles Baskerville and with the neighbours.
15 Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 Father tries to cultivate my love for art.
2 Because friendships enhance our lives,it is important to cultivate them.
3 Most of the land there is too poor to cultivate.
4 The land was too rocky to cultivate.
5 I think probably the most popular habit we writers cultivate is having coffee to hand.
6 After the great eruption, fear of Mount Etna was great; people did not return to cultivate its rich hillside lands until the volcano had been quiescent for a full two years.
7 The course will also consider whole new ways of growing fruit that own-root cultivation might offer.
8 Their method can more than double the yield of certain mushroom species compared with conventional cultivation methods.
9 These fields have been under cultivation for years.
10 This method of cultivation produces higher yield.
11 Universities are connected to the societies that sustain them; but these connections are relationships that require cultivation, not by the university public relations office but by academics themselves.
12 Professor Gladwyn would be an acquaintance worth cultivating.
13 For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece.
14 She has cultivated an image as a tough negotiator.
15 The land here has been intensively cultivated for generations.