How to Use upbringing in a Sentence

upbringing

noun

• The sounds of Latin music were a part of his upbringing.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• The youngest of Cora and Michael Neilon’s two boys, Brett had a unique upbringing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• Now, the food of my upbringing—the food of the South—is making its mark on the American palate.
  — Biju Sukumaran, Chron, 13 Jan. 2023
• Morgan then paired pieces of her upbringing with her time spent in NYC in the ’80s.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 14 May 2024
• Urbano goes back to my roots and upbringing, and pop sheds a light on the soundtrack of my life.
  — Lucas Villa, refinery29.com, 12 Oct. 2023
• And your children will have the city upbringing as well.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• Inspired by the founders’ upbringing in L.A., the show aims to put the diversity of the city on the catwalk.
  — The Editors, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
• Coffee was part of her upbringing from the start, though.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2022
• Was part of this about working out your own roots and all the disparate parts of your upbringing?
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 July 2024
• Set in 1918, the prequel depicts a young Pearl and her upbringing in Texas — which is difficult, to say the least.
  — Lexi Carson, Variety, 3 July 2024
• What in your background or your upbringing enabled you to think like that?
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Nov. 2022
• Growing up in the Midwest and in Virginia, Dairy Queen—and those side-of-the-road custard stands—were a very big part of my upbringing.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 June 2024
• Rufus is free to make his own way through the dysfunction of his upbringing.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• His parents, who moved to the U.S. from Germany in 1962, seldom spoke about their Nazi-era upbringing.
  — Diane Cole, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• The black-tie-optional reception took place at the Bronx Zoo, a nod to their upbringing in the borough.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2022
• The ruggedness of his upbringing helped shape his resolve.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• The movie told the story of an offensive lineman who overcame a poor upbringing to, with the help of his adoptive parents, to play in the NFL.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 14 Aug. 2023
• Not about his upbringing in south London in the ’60s with his Spanish and Portuguese parents.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2023
• Kerr said both he and Laidley were raised Catholic and shared a lot due to their similar upbringing.
  — Brian L. Cox, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2023
• The Irish frontman for the rock band U2 recounts his upbringing and the influences on his music and activism.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
• Gallagher will aim to keep the focus on his new music, which is said to be an homage to his upbringing in Manchester.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 17 Jan. 2023
• Not all the traditions woven into my upbringing made it through to my kids.
  — Megan Angelo, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2023
• First Bites was devised as a resource for every stage of a child’s upbringing, for the time even before a baby enters the world.
  — Rebecca Suhrawardi, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• The line draws upon the model’s memories of her upbringing as well as her fondness for fall.
  — Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 24 Sep. 2024
• The secrets bared illuminate a host of sins — a process made all the more intriguing by the playwright’s own upbringing as a Black artist.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• Respect for the law and service to democracy are themes that run deep in Mayorkas’ upbringing.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Writing was an oasis from a rough upbringing Hinton rarely mentions but did describe to the New York Times in 2005.
  — Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2023
• The series documents his upbringing in the Creel home through flashbacks.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• My macro philosophical take on it [comes down to] my spiritual upbringing as a Muslim.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
• Suter’s Tommy Lynley is a brilliant police detective but an outsider in the force, simply by virtue of his aristocratic upbringing.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024