NOURISHMENT in a Sentence

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51 example sentences for NOURISHMENT, such as:

1. This kind of food is not nourishing for young children.
2. Breast/Mother's milk is the best nourishment for a baby.
3. Children need plenty of good fresh food to nourish them.
4. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men.
5. All the children were well nourished and in good physical condition.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOURISHMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nourishment
 n.  a source of materials to nourish the body
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  Their nourishment consisted entirely of the vegetables of their garden and the milk of one cow, which gave very little during the winter, when its masters could scarcely procure food to support it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
2  My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
3  As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
4  She got up with a headache, was unable to talk, and unwilling to take any nourishment; giving pain every moment to her mother and sisters, and forbidding all attempt at consolation from either.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
5  I forgit myself when I take such an interest in your breakfast, as to wish your frame, exhausted by the debilitating effects of prodigygality, to be stimilated by the 'olesome nourishment of your forefathers.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
6  And just as the hungry stomach eagerly accepts every object it can get, hoping to find nourishment in it, Vronsky quite unconsciously clutched first at politics, then at new books, and then at pictures.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
7  To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, truth is nourishment as well as grain.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
8  The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
9  Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine was lacking, they poured out gayety to all.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MIS...
10  The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
11  It was forty-eight hours since I had taken any nourishment.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
12  I was forced, then, to combat the fast of the evening with the nourishment of the morning.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
13  I would fain exercise some better faculty than that of fierce speaking; fain find nourishment for some less fiendish feeling than that of sombre indignation.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  They'll die of starvation if they can't be persuaded to take some nourishment.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  Rest and proper nourishment should facilitate the patient's recovery.
2  Each may share equally in nourishment, sun, air, water, as long as they �keep their distance.�
3  Breast/Mother's milk is the best nourishment for a baby.
4  The family is shaping excellent personality life textbook, is to stimulate the spirit of power source, is the emotional rain nourishes the soul.
5  All the children were well nourished and in good physical condition.
6  If the patient is poorly nourished, the drugs make them feel nauseous.
7  Along with a devoted team of sixteen full-time staffers and several volunteers, they now nourish kids in seventy Toronto daycares.
8  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.
9  Children need plenty of good fresh food to nourish them.
10  This kind of food is not nourishing for young children.
11  UK organisations are not nourishing their intellectual and emotional capital.