NURSERY in a Sentence

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87 example sentences for NURSERY, such as:

1. The children are at nursery three days a week.
2. She knew he was crying before she reached the nursery.
3. And feeling a rush of milk, she hurried to the nursery.
4. The nursery teacher made the children sit bolt upright.
5. We've turned the smallest bedroom into a nursery for our new baby.

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 Meanings and Examples of NURSERY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nursery
 n.  room for baby; area in a household set apart for the use of children
Classic Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1  At odd dull times, nursery tales come up into the memory, unrecognized for what they are.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
2  To regain her serenity completely she went into the nursery, and spent the whole evening with her son, put him to bed herself, signed him with the cross, and tucked him up.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 33
3  A roar of delighted shrieks arose in the nursery, and never ceased till they had set off for the bathing-place.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8
4  Darya Alexandrovna, hearing a scream in the nursery, ran in and saw a terrible sight.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 10
5  He would go into the nursery several times a day, and sit there for a long while, so that the nurses, who were at first afraid of him, got quite used to his presence.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 19
6  Alexey Alexandrovitch was in the nursery in the morning, and leaving orders for the doctor to be sent for, he went to his office.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 19
7  The presence of Princess Tverskaya was unpleasant to Alexey Alexandrovitch from the memories associated with her, and also because he disliked her, and he went straight to the nursery.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 19
8  In the day nursery Seryozha, leaning on the table with his legs on a chair, was drawing and chatting away merrily.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 19
9  When the nurse went into the nursery, Seryozha was telling his mother how he and Nadinka had had a fall in sledging downhill, and had turned over three times.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 30
10  In the nursery the luxury which had impressed Dolly in the whole house struck her still more.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 19
11  The baby was being fed, and the Russian nursery maid was evidently sharing her meal.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 19
12  But the whole atmosphere of the nursery, and especially the English nurse, Darya Alexandrovna did not like at all.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 19
13  She was afraid of being left alone now; she followed the servant out of the room, and went to the nursery.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 27
14  And feeling a rush of milk, she hurried to the nursery.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 6
15  She knew he was crying before she reached the nursery.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 6
Example Sentence:
1  The nursery teacher clapped her hands to attract the children's attention.
2  Local authority nursery provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers.
3  We've turned the smallest bedroom into a nursery for our new baby.
4  The children are at nursery three days a week.
5  The first chapter presents a critical review of the existing nursery education system.
6  She will talk on the issues she cares passionately about including education and nursery care.
7  For the nursery class, the researcher studied and commented on the data and then discussed what emerged with the staff.
8  The nursery teacher made the children sit bolt upright.
9  When having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and while she got up Mrs. Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders.
10  Anyhow, freedom of movement in a nursery is the reward of learning to walk.
11  We peer in at ten infants through the glass walls of a new-born nursery, imagining the bright futures ahead in the 80 years of life they can expect.