upbringing
Example Sentences
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Parents, it concluded, have a right to “direct the upbringing and education of their children” as they see fit.
The actor also offered a message of camaraderie to her fellow SAG-AFTRA members, citing the Chicago upbringing that made her a “union person.”
From Los Angeles Times
Her family and her regal upbringing in an otherwise poor country are enough for the everyday North Korean to accept her as leader.
From BBC
Determined to give her niece a stable upbringing, Aunt Irene unhappily but dutifully left a comfortable life in Ohio to return to her small-minded hometown in the Deep South.
“Heartland” is not the first book to frame Mr. Bird in the context of his darkness-on-the-edge-of-town upbringing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
