How to Use cultivate in a Sentence

cultivate

verb

• She cultivated a taste for fine wines.
• Some of the fields are cultivated while others lie fallow.
• Prehistoric peoples settled the area and began to cultivate the land.
• They survived by cultivating vegetables and grain.
• He has carefully cultivated his image.
• How much was that a preset tone because of your pre-existing relationships with some of the guests, and how much is cultivated on-camera?
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2024
• Her son, Kurt Gray, has spent his entire career cultivating safe drivers, so the decision hit close to him.
  — James Brown, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2024
• Horowitz cultivates these credos in his clients, yet his usual practice is to wrest books from the grip of one, bestow them into the hands of another, then wrest them back for a third.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
• Employers can cultivate dialogue across their industries as well.
  — Rosie Hoa, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2022
• Which means that sometimes dated and dangerous politics cultivate environments where people who are not male or not straight feel less comfortable.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 18 July 2022
• For all of their youthful promise, the Golden State Warriors cultivate and insist upon adult behavior.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2022
• Spaces can be customized with logos and core colors, allowing occupiers to cultivate a sense of place best tailored for each organization.
  — John Ward, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• The world’s first concept fitness club isn’t just about getting in-shape — it’s a 360 experience where members can cultivate a community.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2022
• DSOs can continue to cultivate the personalization that began in the hiring process by making the reward specific to each awardee.
  — David Tripp, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• Those were the first words the predator used to cultivate the kid.
  — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2020
• The roads were wide and good, and the country well cultivated. . . .
  — Lance Morrow, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
• Somebody had to bring them to the fore, somebody had to cultivate them.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
• As one of the hottest artists in the city, Ice Spice has cultivated a wide network of artist peers.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2024
• And that can cultivate a sense of connection with the bears.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
• That was one of the pieces of the puzzle to cultivate love and compassion for myself.
  — Nathalie Kelley As Told To Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 26 Oct. 2017
• The upper part of the valley is well peopled, and many of the hills are cultivated high up.
  — Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2020
• Our purpose is to cultivate and care for the children in our keep.
  — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 6 Oct. 2017
• Then readers learn how to cultivate, harvest and cook with the herbs.
  — oregonlive.com, 30 July 2019
• The response to this has been to cultivate the idea of the warrior officer.
  — David A. Harris, Fortune, 30 June 2020
• The gentle pink tones of rose quartz can cultivate qualities of love and self-love.
  — Jean Chen Smith, The Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2021
• Best of all, the complex flavors don't take a long time to cultivate, Sequeira adds.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
• Rather, Farhadi sees Pictionary as a way to cultivate skills that can be transferred out of the game realm.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Podcasts that are able to cultivate a fandom that wants in on that journey are the ones poised to survive.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
• The indoor cycling chain has a way of cultivating die-hard fans.
  — Health.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Her top three life tips are to do good, to surround yourself with smarter people, and to cultivate a few best friends.
  — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024