cultivate

[ˈkʌltɪveɪt]

Definition:
1. Foster the growth of.
2. Prepare for crops.
3. Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment.
4. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.

Use 'cultivate' in a sentence:

1. On the positive side, when we cultivate these things, it also helps us deal much better with the negative when dead arises.
2. Harmonious relationships are what many companies aim to cultivate.
3. It was once thought that the fungus that ants cultivate was a single type that they had propagated, essentially unchanged from the distant past.
4. You must cultivate generosity and large-heartedness.
5. Help you cultivate a sense of disk, so that banner, plan well ahead.
6. The extra field cultivated meant a proportionate increase in work.
7. When kids participate in sport games just for fun, they will gain pleasure from the games, cultivate friendship with others and develop team spirit.
8. The outburst was inconsistent with the image he has cultivated.
9. Cultivating a positive mental attitude towards yourself can reap tremendous benefits.
10. It helps if you go out of your way to cultivate the local people.
11. One should cultivate good manners from childhood.
12. We request that every inch of land should be cultivated.
13. She cultivated an air of sophistication.
14. Being gentle and cultivated is just a scholar's attitude.
15. We must cultivate compassion for ourselves, for others and for our survival.
16. At the primary level, the main aim is to cultivate good habits, like learning to plan and exercising self-discipline.
17. He has cultivated the image of an elder statesman.
18. Poor women working in urban areas actively seek to cultivate long-term employer-employee relations.
19. We should cultivate tools for exercising skepticism about what we read because we cannot rely on the reviewers or the media to be skeptical for us.
20. I know that like in Japan, they like to cultivate relationships first before they do business with one another.
21. The primary goal of a university is to train talents, and teaching is the main way to cultivate talents.
22. We should cultivate the good habits of diligence and frugality.
23. This was an important discovery, because by learning to cultivate the land, and care for animals, mankind would always have food steadily.
24. The word "culture" comes from the Latin "colere", which literally means "to cultivate".
25. Even the Platonic just city will have to cultivate warrior citizens who are prepared to risk life in battle for the sake of their own city.
26. Farmers increasingly rent the land they cultivate, which can mean they are less familiar with areas at risk for erosion.
27. He has written eight books and has cultivated the image of an elder statesman.
28. We should work hard to cultivate in young people the revolutionary style of learning diligently and taking pleasure in helping others.
29. He doesn't want to cultivate her acquaintance.
30. The farmer is cultivating his land.
31. The ants therefore cultivate these fungi in their nests, bringing them leaves to feed on, and then use them as a source of food.
32. If we cultivate just that kind of plant, we only put tiny amounts of energy in and the plants still grow nicely.
33. His mother was an elegant, cultivated woman.
34. Recent excavations testify to the presence of cultivated inhabitants on the hill during the Arthurian period.
35. Estonia has done much to cultivate the friendship of western European countries.
36. What he means is that we are ill because we do not cultivate what we are about enough.
37. I want to cultivate the relationship with myself.
38. How do we cultivate positive emotions?
39. Whole villages began to cultivate fruit and vegetables.
40. It is fine and healthy for teens to cultivate their personal interests, and it is good news when young people enjoy harmonious relations with their family and friends.
41. She cultivated her mind by reading many books.
42. "We're the first to cultivate this bee and the first to provide as much evidence of its potential as red raspberry and blackberry pollinator, " says Cane.
43. Corn and cotton are extensively cultivated in this region.
44. On the other hand, studios also had to cultivate flexibility, in addition to consistent factory output.
45. The people cultivate mainly rice and beans.
46. The land is cultivated with rice, cotton and vegetable.
47. A broad valley opened up leading to a high, flat plateau of cultivated land.
48. 90% of the land is cultivated.
49. The land around here has never been cultivated.
50. She also cultivated a small garden of her own.
51. China was the first country in the world to cultivate silkworms and develop silk weaving. More than 3,000 years ago, sericulture and silk weaving were already significantly developed.
52. Because the ants play the behaviorally active role, it seems compelling to say that they cultivate and control the passive fungi.
53. He purposely tried to cultivate good relations with the press.
54. Howe carefully cultivated Daniel C. Roper, the Assistant Postmaster General.