TAUGHT in a Sentence

Learn TAUGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
222 example sentences for TAUGHT, such as:
1. I taught a wide range of abilities.
2. Wit bought is better than wit taught.
3. He taught himself to carve to a high degree of proficiency.
4. His mother had taught him to read and to write a clear hand.
5. True education does not consist in simply being taught facts.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TAUGHT
Classic Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
1  The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie's wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  His mother had taught him to read and to write a clear hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Between them, they taught her all that a gentlewoman should know, but she learned only the outward signs of gentility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do--to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Merely holding herself erect required an effort of will power and she talked as briefly as possible, dispensing with the usual forms of courtesy her mother had always taught her to use with negroes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  Nothing her mother had taught her was of any value whatsoever now and Scarlett's heart was sore and puzzled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  But the war taught me I had created a world of my own with dream people in it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  It taught me what people really are, but it didn't teach me how to live with them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  I always felt that women had a hardness and endurance unknown to men, despite the pretty idea taught me in childhood that women are frail, tender, sensitive creatures.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  Atlanta was crowded with them and still they came by the hundreds, lazy and dangerous as a result of the new doctrines being taught them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  Training and experience had taught her to be hospitable to newcomers, since the most unpromising might be useful later on, and there were plenty of available OUBLIETTES to swallow them if they were not.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
13  She leaned confidently toward her father: he seldom refused her anything, and Mrs. Bart had taught her to plead with him when her own entreaties failed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  If such a warning had ever been needful, the years had taught her a salutary lesson, and she flattered herself that she now knew how to adapt her pace to the object of pursuit.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
15  But, after all, it was the life she had been made for: every dawning tendency in her had been carefully directed toward it, all her interests and activities had been taught to centre around it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  You taught me to aim for success and to accept failure with courage.
2  He taught physics to the students at a college ten years ago.
3  They taught me the meaning of Loyalty that you should never forget anyone you loved.
4  As children, we were taught not to argue with our elders and betters.
5  Road safety is taught to young children to avoid road accidents.
6  When I was young, we were taught to treat older people with respect.
7  Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
8  I taught a wide range of abilities.
9  When I taught, I would assign a topic to children which they would write about.
10  Wit bought is better than wit taught.
11  The boy taught me to grow, those girls taught me how to love.
12  He taught himself to carve to a high degree of proficiency.
13  Young people must be taught to learn the difference between good and evil.
14  Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
15  True education does not consist in simply being taught facts.