CULTURE in a Sentence

Learn CULTURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
252 example sentences for CULTURE, such as:
1. A brief history of Western culture.
2. Greece was the cradle of Western culture.
3. The value of culture is its effect on character.
4. His music reflects his interest in African culture.
5. The culture has been corrupted by Western influences.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CULTURE
culture
 n.  a particular society at a particular time and place
 n.  all the knowledge and values shared by a society
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  Below, near the pavilion, was standing an adjutant-general of whom Alexey Alexandrovitch had a high opinion, noted for his intelligence and culture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
2  Konstantin Levin regarded his brother as a man of immense intellect and culture, as generous in the highest sense of the word, and possessed of a special faculty for working for the public good.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
3  But he could not say "a fool," because Sviazhsky was unmistakably clever, and moreover, a highly cultivated man, who was exceptionally modest over his culture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
4  Let us try to look upon the labor force not as an abstract force, but as the Russian peasant with his instincts, and we shall arrange our system of culture in accordance with that.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 28
5  The whole system of culture, the chief element in the condition of the people, must be completely transformed.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
6  "I am not expressing my own opinion of either form of culture," Sergey Ivanovitch said, holding out his glass with a smile of condescension, as to a child.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
7  "That will come," was the consoling reassurance given him by Golenishtchev, in whose view Vronsky had both talent, and what was most important, culture, giving him a wider outlook on art.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 13
8  The colonel too talked of the opera, and about culture.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 6
9  Here people understood that a man is in duty bound to live for himself, as every man of culture should live.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 20
10  This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In I
11  Men call the shadow prejudice, and learnedly explain it as the natural defence of culture against barbarism, learning against ignorance, purity against crime, the "higher" against the "lower" races.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In I
12  It not only called the school-mistresses through the benevolent agencies and built them schoolhouses, but it helped discover and support such apostles of human culture as Edmund Ware, Samuel Armstrong, and Erastus Cravath.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
13  But now and then the crisscross rails or straight palings break into view, and then we know a touch of culture is near.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  This was an added advantage, for the reason that I found the white people possessing a degree of culture and education that is not surpassed by many localities.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
15  I was asked now to speak to an audience composed of the wealth and culture of the white South, the representatives of my former masters.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His music reflects his interest in African culture.
2  The film is a reflection of the violence that pervades American culture.
3  Because of its geographical isolation, the area developed its own unique culture.
4  The author builds up a useful composite picture of contemporary consumer culture.
5  We speak Danish at home so that the boys don't lose touch with their language and culture.
6  The value of culture is its effect on character.
7  The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
8  These ideas have always been central to Western culture.
9  They adopted western culture, institutions, and even clothing.
10  Greece was the cradle of Western culture.
11  A brief history of Western culture.
12  The culture has been corrupted by Western influences.
13  India is where I first experienced real culture shock.
14  British culture now appears to revolve around the unholy trinity of sport, shopping and sex.
15  My visits enabled me to build up a broad picture of the culture.