Sentence examples for draw nourishment from inspiring English sources
The phrase "draw nourishment" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to refer to either physical nourishment that is taken in, or nonphysical nourishment that is taken in such as knowledge or inspiration. For example, "Maggie drew nourishment from her mother's words of encouragement."
"To let general words draw nourishment from their purpose is one thing.
We know that it is easier and less costly to draw nourishment from plants than animals.
In 1840, chemical fertilization began to take off when the German scientist Justus von Liebig determined that plants draw nourishment from chemicals in solution.
Rangers eventually found at least 45 graffiti tags in the park, including 16 on the slow-growing and fragile saguaro, the paint obscuring part of the green skins where the plants store the chlorophyll to draw nourishment from the sun.
In a local pine wood I have found toadstools almost as big as buns; a naturalist tells me that these fungi draw nourishment from dead leaves and rotting wood.
Just as Pinocchio was carved out of wood and became a living boy, the wig has embedded itself in the Fabricant skull and - thanks to some terrible genetic mutation - it has started to draw nourishment from his scalp.
Recalling his early life in a rough Philadelphia neighborhood, he draws nourishment from a sense of his acuity: "My breathing / was older than me".
Small in scale but with a grand visual ambition, "Dead Man's Burden" draws nourishment from its burned-out desert setting and ambling pace.
It seemed to her vividly alive, a motionless hirsute presence, the antenna, the flowers, the four massive legs, the pipe that drained the inside spittoon trailing into the grass as if drawing nourishment.
In his 1968 book "African Art," Pierre Meauzé, curator of the Museum of African and Oceanic Art in Paris, wrote about how Africans view raw materials: "Since wood is a living material, it is felt that the masks and statuettes derive their magical power from the branch or trunk of a tree whose roots drew nourishment from the earth.
"In the second stanza, the tree is a sucking babe drawing nourishment from Mother Earth; in the third it is a supplicant reaching its leafy arms to the sky in prayer .
