How to Use culture in a Sentence

culture

1 of 2 noun
  • Her art shows the influence of pop culture.
  • It's important to learn about other cultures.
  • The company's corporate culture is focused on increasing profits.
  • The vibe of the culture back home was to keep jazz pure.
    Jeremy Hallock, star-telegram, 11 May 2018
  • Wonder what the culture is like for the cadet in the front?
    Fox News, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The goal of #MeToo is to change our culture, even our world.
    Laura McGann, Vox, 21 May 2018
  • That’s a credit to the culture in that room and in the locker room.
    Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2022
  • What is pop culture if not the cause for some folks to be up in arms?
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 28 Jan. 2023
  • But what any fan should hope is that the GM has a plan and a culture in mind.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2020
  • This is a win not only for you, But the culture as a whole.
    Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 30 Mar. 2018
  • We were called upon to create the culture of the school.
    Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 24 June 2019
  • And there are so many nods to South Asian culture throughout the show.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 June 2022
  • The show is deeply embedded in the culture at this point.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 18 Mar. 2023
  • So much culture in this area, from Weeksville to Bed-Stuy.
    Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The results of the culture from the lab were expected to take two to three days.
    Michael Osipoff, Post-Tribune, 9 June 2017
  • And cops are being told to stay out of trouble by the courts, the media, the culture.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2022
  • Those are the things that are the classic tactics of the cancel culture.
    Fox News, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Despite all of this, the overall culture still has a long way to go.
    Vera Papisova, Teen Vogue, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Its culture is a fertile soil for these types of films.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Pop culture is still a big source of stylish and sweet baby girl names.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 6 May 2022
  • Cheesy or transporting, the trend points to something in the culture right now.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The theatre was not based in snobbery, and neither is the show’s culture.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Tired of being hammered over the head with culture war stuff?
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • For just as long, many women have been toiling to change the culture.
    Erin Wade, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2018
  • For the first time, Epps was able to showcase his culture via cuisine.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The ancient culture didn’t number days from first to last for each month.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 15 Mar. 2019
  • And what’s at stake is nations, cultures and tens of millions of lives.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The back-and-forth is a mere microcosm of the culture wars ripping our country apart.
    Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The food culture in this country has been nothing if not in a constant state of change.
    Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2020
  • And, of course, pop culture managed to fit a few finalists in as well.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2021
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culture

2 of 2 verb
  • The virus is cultured in the laboratory from samples of infected tissue.
  • It’s no one’s idea on Christmas Eve to pipette stem cells in a petri dish and wait for that to culture.
    Jayne Williamson-Lee, STAT, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The heart of the monthlong process is culturing the koji, Mr. Doughan said.
    Rachel Wharton, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
  • For the first time, scientists didn’t need to culture organisms to study them in the lab.
    Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
  • Her doctor prescribed a third drug, ciprofloxacin, the last of the three major front-line medicines, and cultured her urine.
    Matt Richtel, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
  • Her doctor prescribed a third drug, ciproflaxacin, the last of the three major front-line medicines, and cultured her urine.
    Matt Richtel, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2019
  • The diagnostic gold standard is to culture it in a lab from a swab or to have a blood test.
    Amy Bennett Williams, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • In 2013, Rogue Ales, of Newport, Ore., released a beer brewed with the yeast cultured from nine hairs from the brew master’s beard.
    Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
  • All Walker has to do is what his friend Trump did, and stick to culture war issues, and avoid talking about his past.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Samples are cultured from the swabs taken from the patients' penises.
    Sophie Cousins, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • Things began to turn around, though, at least with respect to culture if not the win column, when the 41-year-old Norvell arrived from Memphis.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Researchers are learning to culture organoids in blood, or in tandem with immune cells.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The resulting product has a simpler list of ingredients and is cultured in the glass jar in which it is sold.
    Candice Choi, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2017
  • Culturing your own butter is old-school; blending your own ketchup is crazy old-school.
    Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • The board oversees its own curriculum with the DineÌ language and culture a focal point, according to the web site.
    Chris Coppola, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2021
  • And, given the right cells to culture, its facility can produce any kind of meat, from duck to lobster.
    Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
  • For over a decade, Shedd has cultured plankton in-house to feed and nourish tens of thousands of animals on site daily.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • Australia is the last place in the world where pearls are cultured in wild oysters, using mollusks not from hatcheries but handpicked by divers from the deep ocean floor.
    Vera Sprothen, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2016
  • The researchers infuse this layer with a type of stem cells, known as mesenchymal cells, cultured from the bone marrow of each patient.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Her mother referred to her as sweet, smart, well-traveled and cultured, according to the news station.
    oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The researchers infuse this layer with a type of stem cells, known as mesenchymal cells, cultured from the bone marrow of each patient.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2017
  • The center includes cell culturing equipment to grow lung cells from patients, to be used for drug screening.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2018
  • They can also be made just like dairy yogurts and cultured with bacteria.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • These are foods made like sauerkraut: submerged in brine and left to be cultured by good bacteria that break down starches and sugar and turn them sour.
    Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Memphis Meats, based in Emeryville, Calif., is one of a growing number of startups worldwide that are making cell-based or cultured meat.
    Terence Chea, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2019
  • That the internet, and perhaps culture as a whole, exist for fleeting amusement seems to be a self-evident fact for her.
    New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • But her latest look proves that, sometimes, being cultured is even better than owning the latest It bag.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2018
  • The company cultures cord-blood stem cells in nicotinamide, a form of vitamin B3, for three weeks before transplant.
    Ron Winslow, WSJ, 28 May 2018
  • No one informed or obtained consent from Lacks or her family to culture her cells.
    Grace Halden, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2015
  • Afterward, researchers swabbed the bakers’ washed hands and cultured the microbes.
    New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020

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