How to Use cultivate in a Sentence

cultivate

verb

• She cultivated a taste for fine wines.
• Some of the fields are cultivated while others lie fallow.
• Prehistoric peoples settled the area and began to cultivate the land.
• They survived by cultivating vegetables and grain.
• He has carefully cultivated his image.
• Those were the first words the predator used to cultivate the kid.
  — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2020
• And that can cultivate a sense of connection with the bears.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
• Somebody had to bring them to the fore, somebody had to cultivate them.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
• Our purpose is to cultivate and care for the children in our keep.
  — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 6 Oct. 2017
• That was one of the pieces of the puzzle to cultivate love and compassion for myself.
  — Nathalie Kelley As Told To Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 26 Oct. 2017
• The response to this has been to cultivate the idea of the warrior officer.
  — David A. Harris, Fortune, 30 June 2020
• The upper part of the valley is well peopled, and many of the hills are cultivated high up.
  — Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2020
• Then readers learn how to cultivate, harvest and cook with the herbs.
  — oregonlive.com, 30 July 2019
• The roads were wide and good, and the country well cultivated. . . .
  — Lance Morrow, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
• The gentle pink tones of rose quartz can cultivate qualities of love and self-love.
  — Jean Chen Smith, The Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2021
• The wealth of this nation was built because of our ability to cultivate food.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2021
• Podcasts that are able to cultivate a fandom that wants in on that journey are the ones poised to survive.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
• A red gate marks the transition from wild to cultivated.
  — Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
• One idea was to build a small lake to help cultivate population growth.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 16 June 2021
• The most teachers could do was cultivate a culture of caution.
  — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• The indoor cycling chain has a way of cultivating die-hard fans.
  — Health.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• How does one cultivate and pass along anything more than rage and despair?
  — Taylor Harris, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2022
• His answer was to cultivate a vineyard and build a winery.
  — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 2 May 2018
• Staffing well and cultivating winning resources are the best ways to counter pitfalls in this area.
  — Lloyd Adams, Quartz, 14 June 2023
• Baidu has been trying to cultivate its own walled garden.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
• My trust in the collective to cultivate this carries me forward.
  — Sydnie L. Mosley, Essence, 1 July 2020
• Every day, we are told to both cultivate and erase ourselves.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2020
• Most tobacco is grown by small farmers who cultivate just over an acre of land.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 June 2021
• Home should be a happy place, and somewhere that cultivates good feelings and mindset for you.
  — Maya McDowell, House Beautiful, 15 Feb. 2019
• George allowed his wife to cultivate few close friendships, for fear of favoritism.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024