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How to use the word nursery in a Sentence?

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She hinted about it constantly. Every room John Mulaney ’d walk into, she ’d be like, ‘ So this could be an office … or maybe a nursery. ’ no, no, I know.

John Mulaney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

John Mulaney real estate agent wanted John Mulaney to have a baby more than anyone else in John Mulaney lives. More than anyone else in John Mulaney family, she hinted about it constantly. Every room John Mulaney ’d walk into, she ’d be like, ‘ So this could be an office … or maybe a nursery. ’.

The Comeback Kid

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have had to bump back scans and appointments because they were scheduled at a big hospital in the city and I didn't feel comfortable going there right now, i don't know when I will be able to shop for anything baby-related, let alone get a nursery ready. I was really worried about the pharmacy running out of prenatal vitamins. Things like that make it very difficult.

Meghan McCain

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have three young kids, my 4-year-old came home from nursery school and asked,' Why are my friends telling me that our family's work is killing people ?'.

David Sackler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

Alan Watts

added by Normando
5 years ago

I urge consumers to report any incidents with inclined sleepers or other nursery products to CPSC at saferproducts.gov, as a mother and grandmother there's nothing more important to me than the safety of our children.

Ann Marie Buerkle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

These nursery rhymes prepare children for language, they're fun and they create a world-to-lyric connection, where kids can recognize real-life themes like family.

Susan Morley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine species and support fisheries by providing foraging habitats for adult fish and nursery habitats for juveniles, so they're really important biologically and economically.

John Burt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Look at nature. A single bee cannot really do much. But you put a group of bees together and they can form a hive. A colony of bees that work in harmony. Each one doing its part. Some bees collect pollen. Some bees tend to the hive. Some bees guard the hive. Some bees tend to the nursery. Together they make a lot of honey.

H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
6 years ago

If you do not want the dog and cat to go into the nursery, start training them to stay out of the room before the baby arrives — and yes, cats are trainable too.

Judy Morgan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The first time he slept through the night, I just remember waking up on my own and going into his nursery to find him still asleep. It was a really weird feeling actually, like I had slept through something and why wasn’t he up yet?

Alyssa Russomondo

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In my opinion, this trend away from nurseries is extremely disturbing and is doing a huge disservice to women, it's like we're forgetting that women's bodies experience so much during birth. God forbid we need a little rest to recuperate. There is nothing, I repeat nothing, wrong with asking for your baby to be taken to the nursery so that you can rest while you're still in the hospital. Moms should not be shamed or judged for expressing their needs.

Michelle Noehren

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is what we didcenturies ago— it’s only in the past 100 years that we’ve taken the babies away from mom and put them in a crib or a nursery.

Cindy Shelton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It takes two years to build a nursery and another two years to get fruit, we're saying 20 acres of trees in the ground this spring will produce a small amount of fruit by fall 2016.

Neal Carter

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It has been a nursery rhyme experience for sure, but more than likely without a fairy tale ending.

Bill Gross

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Phyllis McGinley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

Clare Boothe Luce

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Prince Otto

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

William Makepeace Thackeray

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Benjamin Disraeli

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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