Definition: 1. Properties acquired during a person's formative years. 2. Raising someone to be an accepted member of the community.
Use 'upbringing' in a sentence:
1. The young man overcame his dirt-poor upbringing and now owns his village's only shop.
2. His good upbringing really shows; The dirty side will show.
3. He was a Catholic by upbringing.
4. Fathers and mothers should share the upbringing of small babies.
5. The principle of combining upbringing, treatment and education.
6. The Interpretation of Japanese Upbringing Education Report at New Times.
7. People who use foul language show their poor upbringing.
8. Her unselfish act reflects well on her upbringing.
9. Sam's mother said her son had a good upbringing and schooling.
10. I think your upbringing has prejudiced you.
11. Her upbringing had made him like an alien to her.
12. I would want my kids to have a religious upbringing.
13. There was nothing in Spader's upbringing that suggested the birth of an unusual star.
14. My upbringing was unusual, but not unique.
15. And a thirdis that although genes are important, upbringing matters, too.
16. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I am the type who usually plays it safe.
17. It was also his upbringing, his family bonds, his sense of integrity — and his own losses.
18. Martin's upbringing shaped his whole life.
19. Forth, to adopt suitable upbringing measures for promoting plantations renew.
20. to have had a sheltered upbringing.
21. A man is what his environment and upbringing make him.
22. Her French upbringing gives her certain advantage over other students in her class.
23. We are all the result of our parentage and upbringing.
24. He had a fairly cushy upbringing.
25. No one wants to be thought of as having a poor upbringing.
26. Inborn leadership traits certainly do exist, but upbringing, he found, matters too.
27. "I think Veronica had a city upbringing," he said.
28. It indicates that they lack the basic moral upbringing.
29. Here you see that even with common genes and upbringing much is not determined.
30. I thought that my upbringing was 'normal', whatever that is.
31. Teenage pregnancies aren't just another fact of life in a difficult upbringing.
32. Same colonial upbringing, very different outcomes.
33. Bill Sr. and Mary ultimately took a page from that upbringing: They backed off.
34. One's upbringing largely determines success in life.
35. Breakfast in Jordan - the choice varies depending on the are and upbringing you're from.
36. Inthisinstance, exactly which bit of upbringing remains unclear.
37. He doesn't know about this kind of decay - his wasn't a rural upbringing.
38. Was it my upbringing, or work that made me feel rejected and dismissed?
39. Although my upbringing was perhaps a bit strict compared with modern children, I'm very thankful to my parents for giving me a clear direction in life.
40. Her pain is amplified by other sinister aspects of her upbringing.
41. The experiment had proved that upbringing has little impact.
42. Barack ’ s story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.
43. Part of answer, of course, lay in his upbringing.
44. Article 48 In cases where the person refuses to abide by judgements or rulings on maintenance, upbringing or support payments, or on the division or inheritance of property, or on visits to children, the people's court shall enforce the execution of the judgements or rulings according to law.
45. Unlike physical energy, which is finite and diminishes with age, emotional energy is unlimited and has nothing to do with genes or upbringing.
46. Her political consciousness sprang from her upbringing when her father's illness left the family short of money.
47. Don't you think they speak well for our civic pride and moral upbringing?
48. She had a Christian upbringing.
49. He later rebelled against his strict religious upbringing.
50. Upbringing plays an important part in determining a person's character.
51. I thought that my upbringing was "normal," whatever that is.
52. This is to help her to come to terms with her early upbringing and make sense of past experiences.
53. My mother, who had a sheltered upbringing, has fantastic memories of childhood.
