Sentence examples for knowing your place from inspiring English sources

Home life involved a strict, puritanical code of knowing your place.

Saying "sir" was too much a part of knowing your place.

Physically powerful, he finds himself battered by moral forces, social restrictions, assumptions about class and knowing your place.

In the postwar boom, deference was the product of a bygone age and knowing your place was no longer a default position.

It's an unhealthy living; but it's a living, and you can't be here without immediately knowing your place on a spectrum of fortune.

This fantasy of enlightened management is comforting, especially in its portrayal of a system in which knowing your place was pretty much all it took to remain in your place.

Otherwise he had a normal childhood marked by visits to the renowned Mitchell Corn Palace and what he later termed "a sense of belonging to a particular place and knowing your part in it".

Slow foodies advocate home cooking with locally grown ingredients, thus reducing the CO2 impact of shipping foods across the world, supporting local farmers, and knowing your food comes from a place that utilizes ethical business practices and sustainable growing methods.

"Simple things, like knowing not to trust anyone who promises you a dream job in another country; never going to an unknown place alone; knowing your parents' and your own full name and age; and being able to explain where you live, help children guard against traffickers".

Little girls and boys who struggle that bit more to concentrate at school, or don't get to have the pleasure and contentment which comes from knowing a place your entire life, from that spot in the back garden where you can sunbathe and revise at the same time or a bedroom to yourself where you can study, or write terrible self-indulgent novels you'll never show to anyone.

Simple things like knowing how to place your feet on the floor or when to hit pause on Pandora can all make a difference in optimizing work efficiency.