nourishment

Example Sentences

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The result is what Polyakov calls an “intimate symbiosis” that can help Joshua trees growing in dry desert soils reach pockets of nourishment that their roots alone would struggle to access, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

And here’s a truth I like to remember on rough days: when it comes to nourishment, you don’t have to make it beautiful.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2026

But they also “triggered an explosion of creativity. Music served as an individual and collective strategy of resistance, producing mental and spiritual nourishment no less indispensable than food.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Francis always denounced such ploys, saying that Communion was not a reward for perfect behavior but a kind of spiritual nourishment for everyone, including sinners.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2025

There are great caverns for the gardens of fungi on which the termites depend for their nourishment, perhaps also as a source of heat.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas