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How to use the word nurtured in a Sentence?

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When you see them all withering in the heat, you feel sad, because, over a period of time, you have nurtured them.

Margaret Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a culture. It's a saving grace. It is a lifeline, i think it's really important that we don't change the narrative, twist the narrative of the fact that this is a South African sound -- that this is nurtured, it is built, it is grown here.

Mandisa Radebe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What a privilege to be inducted in this brotherhood, it takes a lot of belief to get to this stage. However, belief has to be nurtured time and time again. One person can make a difference. I encourage each and every one of you to be that person.

John Lynch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In addition to whatever assets life has nurtured in me, I have a disproportionate amount of money to share, my approach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful. It will take time and effort and care.

Jeff Bezos

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Police officers are preparing to prosecute the mother but she is also a child and we must consider her mind and be professional, it is important that she is nurtured and treated fairly.

Nakhon Ratchasima

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Big Bird brought me so many places, opened my mind and nurtured my soul, and I plan to be an ambassador for Sesame Workshop for many years to come. After all, Eric Jacobson're a family ! But now Sesame Workshop for many years's time for two performers that I have worked with and respected -- and actually hand-picked for the guardianship of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch -- to take my alter-egos into their hands and continue to give them life.

Caroll Spinney

Found on CNN
5 years ago

...Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.”

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

added by anonymous
5 years ago

We have one unhappy aging society that needs support both from the public and the government. Places like colatecs need to be nurtured.

Joo Won

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I want to thank everybody who’s nurtured me, who’s stood in the gap for me.

Oprah Winfrey

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Love is the illusive elixir we all seek and fewer seem to find. Those that are blessed with it ultimately know that it has been uncovered and that it must be sheltered and nurtured. Andreas Simic

Andreas Simic

added by anonymous
6 years ago

These people didn't just kill these things. They didn't just kill people and throw them away, they took elaborate, symbolic care for them because they knew that the presence that they represented, the presence of god, had to be nurtured.

David Carrasco

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The peace process is very fragile, living on the border here I'd be very much aware it's very fragile and it has to be treated and nurtured that way.

Helena Corcoran

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Babies are not the sum of their body parts, babies are not meant to be bought. Babies are not meant to be sold. Babies are just that — babies. They’re meant to be welcomed and rejoiced over, held and nurtured.

Ben Sasse

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Indeed the goals themselves embody the very idea that human well-being should be nurtured through a holistic approach that combines economic, social and environmental objectives, rather than taking a narrow approach focused solely on economic growth,we should promote societies that are prosperous, just, and environmentally sustainable.

Jeffrey Sachs

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Measuring self-reported happiness and achieving well-being should be on every nation's agenda as they begin to pursue the Sustainable Development Goals, indeed the goals themselves embody the very idea that human well-being should be nurtured through a holistic approach that combines economic, social and environmental objectives.

Jeffrey Sachs

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Hillary Clinton is the right choice for the Democrats to present a vision for America that is radically different from the one that leading Republican candidates offer -- a vision in which middle-class Americans have a real shot at prosperity, women's rights are enhanced, undocumented immigrants are given a chance at legitimacy, international alliances are nurtured and the country is kept safe.

The Times

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Don't make sacrifices in life, instead turn them into offerings of love. Sacrifice is painful and offerings are pleasurable, just change your perspective, feelings, motive and not your action. Your offerings will sky -rise, this world will be nurtured to MickeyMize.

Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

Places like West Philly, or West Baltimore, or Ferguson, Missouri -- they're part of America, too. They're not separate. They're part of America like anywhere else. The kids there are American kids, just like your kids and my kids, so we've got to make sure boys and girls in those communities are loved and cherished and supported and nurtured and invested in. And we have to have the same standards for those children as we have for our own children.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Tourism is a national treasure that needs to be protected, nurtured and developed - that's the aim of all these measures.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Community trust is a precious but perishable commodity that must be nurtured, otherwise, the hard work of building that trust can be eaten away in a few seconds.

Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This house is rare and very traditional and therefore our identity as Japanese has been nurtured in this house, when I think about that, I would say this is the most amazing part of this house and this is what I love the most about it.

Megumi Hata

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.

Bryant McGill

added by anonymous
11 years ago

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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