UPBRINGING in a Sentence

Learn UPBRINGING 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.
10 example sentences for UPBRINGING, such as:
1. His manners argue a good upbringing.
2. Mine was a conventional family upbringing.
3. Victor's upbringing is a formative influence in his early life.
4. I wonder what it was about her upbringing that made her so insecure.
5. The researchers found that upbringing is an important factor in the investment behavior of young people.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of UPBRINGING
upbringing
 n.  properties acquired during a person's formative years
 n.  helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
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.