Example Sentences

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While 1989’s “Mothers Milk” had been a modest success, the band’s music — punk-indebted Muscle Beach funk-rock — lagged behind their well-cultivated image.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021

No hip-hop artist has so deftly balanced a well-cultivated street authenticity—“character” work—with such a virtuosic flair for corporate capitalism.

From Slate • Aug. 11, 2019

Unlike Zinke, whose well-cultivated cowboy persona is “all hat, no cattle,” Clement says, “the real work is being done by Bernhardt.”

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2019

Both advised business owners to deepen relationships with all those ho would play a role in assisting in your exit, including commercial bankers, investment bankers, a well-cultivated advisory board and even competitors and strategic partners.

From Inc • Mar. 16, 2010

He saw in her at this hour the noblest type of Celtic loveliness—its winning face, splendid form, rich coloring, all vivified by a well-cultivated intellect, and made charming and winsome by childlike confidence and simplicity.

From Playing With Fire by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston