How to Use culture in a Sentence

culture

1 of 2 noun
Definition of culturenext
Synonyms for culturenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • We were called upon to create the culture of the school.
    — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 24 June 2019
  • The show is deeply embedded in the culture at this point.
    — Breanna Bell, Variety, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The results of the culture from the lab were expected to take two to three days.
    — Michael Osipoff, Post-Tribune, 9 June 2017
  • Those are the things that are the classic tactics of the cancel culture.
    — Fox News, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Its culture is a fertile soil for these types of films.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Despite all of this, the overall culture still has a long way to go.
    — Vera Papisova, Teen Vogue, 18 Apr. 2018
  • This is a win not only for you, But the culture as a whole.
    — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Pop culture is still a big source of stylish and sweet baby girl names.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 6 May 2022
  • Tired of being hammered over the head with culture war stuff?
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • And cops are being told to stay out of trouble by the courts, the media, the culture.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2022
  • The goal of #MeToo is to change our culture, even our world.
    — Laura McGann, Vox, 21 May 2018
  • Cheesy or transporting, the trend points to something in the culture right now.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • For just as long, many women have been toiling to change the culture.
    — Erin Wade, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • The ancient culture didn’t number days from first to last for each month.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 15 Mar. 2019
  • There is something else here going on about the culture.
    — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
  • And there are so many nods to South Asian culture throughout the show.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 June 2022
  • Mainstream pop culture is unashamedly cringe and has been for a long time.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The theatre was not based in snobbery, and neither is the show’s culture.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The method might serve as a metaphor for making and remaking culture.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Think for a second how ingrained bread is in our culture.
    — Popular Science, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Choi is trying to change that culture by calling it out.
    — Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 22 Feb. 2018
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culture

2 of 2 verb
  • The virus is cultured in the laboratory from samples of infected tissue.
  • 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
  • For the first time, scientists didn’t need to culture organisms to study them in the lab.
    — Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
  • Samples are cultured from the swabs taken from the patients' penises.
    — Sophie Cousins, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Researchers are learning to culture organoids in blood, or in tandem with immune cells.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • They can also be made just like dairy yogurts and cultured with bacteria.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The heart of the monthlong process is culturing the koji, Mr. Doughan said.
    — Rachel Wharton, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Culturing your own butter is old-school; blending your own ketchup is crazy old-school.
    — Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Afterward, researchers swabbed the bakers’ washed hands and cultured the microbes.
    — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Joe built a legacy and culture around treating others with kindness and respect, asking only for the same in return.
    — al, 25 May 2022
  • Typically, these plastic trays are used to culture cells.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 May 2022
  • Her mother referred to her as sweet, smart, well-traveled and cultured, according to the news station.
    — oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The next step to studying these gargantuan bacteria is for scientists to figure out how to culture them in labs.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 June 2022
  • No one informed or obtained consent from Lacks or her family to culture her cells.
    — Grace Halden, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2015
  • How will culture combine with the increasingly digital world to affect cities, space or even the human body?
    — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • The university cultures some of these dangerous parasites to study them.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 July 2018
  • Oui yogurt is cultured for eight hours in the small glass jars in which it is sold, and doesn’t contain artificial flavors or preservatives.
    — Annie Gasparro, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2017
  • But her latest look proves that, sometimes, being cultured is even better than owning the latest It bag.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2018

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