TEACH in a Sentence

Learn TEACH 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.
352 example sentences for TEACH, such as:
1. She is going to teach me to sew.
2. Method will teach you to win time.
3. Any fool can teach himself to type.
4. Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
5. That would teach them a little courtesy.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TEACH
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  That would teach them a little courtesy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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)
1  In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
2  Our aim is to teach our son to become an independent, self-reliant adult.
3  Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
4  I trust the people who teach me not to trust anyone.
5  Among those people that appear in our life, some are to teach us, some to comfortus, some to share and some to love.
6  You cannot assume that a speaker of English is ipso facto qualified to teach English.
7  An educational system which fails to teach basic arithmetic is seriously deficient.
8  There are obviously two educationsOne should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
9  Any fool can teach himself to type.
10  Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach.
11  The years teach much which the days never know.
12  Method will teach you to win time.
13  Learn to suffer without complaining; that is the best thing I can teach you.
14  And gladly would learn, and gladly teach.
15  Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.