How to Use teach in a Sentence

teach

verb
  • Someone needs to teach her right and wrong.
  • Her injury will teach her not to be so careless with a knife.
  • She taught English for many years at the high school.
  • The church teaches compassion and forgiveness.
  • The experience taught us that money doesn't mean everything.
  • He enjoys teaching his students about history.
  • Turn it on and the guide will teach you the 4-7-9 breathing method.
    Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
  • He’s taught her to see the world in all its minute detail.
    Margaret Atwood, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Isn’t that what we were taught in civics, all those years ago, when civics was taught?
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 June 2024
  • Have fun with the process—ask grandma to teach you the steps to her first dance with grandpa.
    Lisa J. Wise, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2022
  • And of course, also changing what is taught in schools, what is taught in the mosque.
    Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Pen Pals will also serve as space for known MCs to learn how to teach.
    Shaheim Reid, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Once their boys got burned out, Dave asked them to teach him how to edit.
    Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • All of these tools were a mystery to me, but Mr. Wesson taught me how to use them.
    Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Perhaps the third time was the charm, and the universe had been teaching me patience.
    Sean Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Fuse took Cole to Japan and even taught him to speak Japanese.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
  • And Diana is just one of those people who can teach us about that.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The crew will take you on a boat into the Pacific Ocean and teach you the basics.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The students say that what the teachers were teaching them didn’t make sense.
    Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
  • And Donna has taught me so much about Midge and her journey through her clothes.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • If Brancusi conceived of the bird, Alexander Calder taught it to fly.
    Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 July 2024
  • So, Wegovy does not teach the brain to be at that new set point for the long-term by itself, without the drug.
    Sheila Cosgrove Baylis, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The history of white men in this country is taught in schools every day of the school year.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
  • When the orders started rolling out of the printer, Jeff told Cameron Kriz, one of the line cooks, to teach me how to make an omelet.
    Joel Stein, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2022
  • His first coach, the one who taught him to play baseball, struggles to endure each day.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
  • As an Asian kid brought up in Asia, we're not taught to be vocal or voice ourselves.
    EW.com, 20 Apr. 2024
  • William Elliott had planned to teach his son how to ride dirt bikes, Theo Elliott said.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024
  • It’s been so fun meeting you at conferences and events around the city, and your emails have warmed my heart and taught me a lot.
    Anne Sraders, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Kids can spend hours trying to solve it... or watch a YouTube video that'll teach them how to get all of the same colors on one side.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The children need to know about Peter Lorre impressions, and this is how they should be taught!
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024

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