NOURISHING in a Sentence

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51 example sentences for NOURISHING, such as:

1. Everything nourishes what is strong already.
2. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love the lover.
3. Not by beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished.
4. This kind of food is not nourishing for young children.
5. Breast/Mother's milk is the best nourishment for a baby.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOURISHING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nourishing
 a.  nutritious; healthy; of or providing nourishment
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  And Wade could have nourishing food to fill out his thin cheeks and warm clothes and a governess and afterward go to the university.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  Zogranda, one of their most famous doctors, recommends strips of blubber for infants, as being exceedingly juicy and nourishing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
3  The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the strength of a part of the population which was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  The former feeling gradually gave way before the endearments of his ward, and the pride which he could not help nourishing in the fame of his son.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  These circumstances, added to the refreshment I had received by their victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
6  Everything nourishes what is strong already.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
7  Fever nourishes the sick man, and love the lover.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE
8  The fruit, or venison, which nourishes the wild Indian, who knows no enclosure, and is still a tenant in common, must be his, and so his, i.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  The truth seems to be, however, that the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognised a kindred wilderness in the human child.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
12  I sit down by the fire, thinking with a blind remorse of all those secret feelings I have nourished since my marriage.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
13  Dantes gazed on the man who could thus philosophically resign hopes so long and ardently nourished with an astonishment mingled with admiration.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
14  Not by beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
15  As though the informer drew to himself a little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each one's flesh.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
Example Sentence:
1  This kind of food is not nourishing for young children.
2  UK organisations are not nourishing their intellectual and emotional capital.
3  The family is shaping excellent personality life textbook, is to stimulate the spirit of power source, is the emotional rain nourishes the soul.
4  All the children were well nourished and in good physical condition.
5  If the patient is poorly nourished, the drugs make them feel nauseous.
6  Rest and proper nourishment should facilitate the patient's recovery.
7  Each may share equally in nourishment, sun, air, water, as long as they �keep their distance.�
8  Breast/Mother's milk is the best nourishment for a baby.
9  Along with a devoted team of sixteen full-time staffers and several volunteers, they now nourish kids in seventy Toronto daycares.
10  Farmers struggling to nourish thirsty crops are digging more wells, draining centuries-old aquifers, so that the Tigris and Euphrates basins lost 144 cubic kilometres of fresh water from 2003 to 2010.
11  Children need plenty of good fresh food to nourish them.