Sentence examples for nourished on from inspiring English sources

"The references to silos and mills — I was nourished on that," Nouvel said.

Brought up in a large, articulate family, she was nourished on argument.

A Chinese poet and storyteller nourished on Beat generation literature, he picked fights, drank to excess and despised politics.

Nourished on wood, the fire had to follow a hopscotch path to consume both roofs and window frames.

Like Dickens too he was nourished on a genuinely popular culture – comic strips such as Flash Gordon and the circus.

The cave artists were as tall as the average Southern European of today, and well nourished on the teeming game and fish they hunted with flint weapons.

When they were ready to buy real beer again, Ms. Ogle argues, the national palate, nourished for decades on industrial food, required the brewers to reformulate their product once again.

One reason that widespread protests in Uganda in early 2011 did not transform into another Tahrir Square was that the Ugandan armed forces — nourished for years on Museveni's corrupt patronage, funded mainly by the United States — remained fiercely loyal to the president, including when asked to fire on innocent civilians.

Jordan, nourished for 12 years on Iraq's gift of free oil, is now expelling migrants seeking haven.The mosques and churches are packed with believers seeking a more metaphysical refuge.

Shoreline management zones include a naturally evolving, undeveloped segment; a noneroding, developed segment; eroding and noneroding segments of an "improved beach" where dunes have been built by artificial nourishment; and a privately built, artificially nourished dune on the shoreline of an inlet.

I thank those anonymous and generous donors whose blood nourished me on the operating table.