Sentence examples for a difficult upbringing from inspiring English sources

Hamm had a difficult upbringing.

He had a difficult upbringing.

Had a difficult upbringing and was at one stage sleeping rough in Tehran.

The author makes light of a difficult upbringing; he romps through life's many travails.

Mr. Allin, who died in 1993, had had a difficult upbringing with his religiously observant father.

The judge heard that Farquharson had autism and a difficult upbringing.

"She had endured a very difficult upbringing - no father, an over-controlling but emotionally-distant mother, a disliked stepfather and proximity to great sadness and cruelty in her New York life.

"I had a very difficult upbringing," he explains.

I'm [a woman] from a fairly difficult upbringing who also happens to do other kinds of things.

It was a loving but difficult upbringing, Guirgis says, and "she grew up in a household terrified of intimacy and marriage". Nearly 40 and still single, she was volunteering as an adviser to foreign exchange students when a grateful Egyptian told her to call his family if she were ever inclined to go to Cairo.

Court papers described his difficult upbringing: a disabled mother addicted to heroin who, in a deposition, said she could not read; walls and windowsills containing enough lead to poison the children and leave them incapable of leading functional lives; a young man who was four grade levels behind in reading.