Sentence examples for typical upbringing from inspiring English sources

Not your typical upbringing, I know.

This is far from the typical upbringing for kids around the world, who now shoot threes on the playground, and point to the sky after a make, to be like their idol.

"It was really more like growing up in the Italian mob than your typical Jewish upbringing," Mr. Goldgrub said.

The son of two New York City police officers and a lifelong resident of Breezy Point, Queens, an insular beach community just west of the club, Mr. Mackay had a typical local upbringing that included Catholic school and working as an ocean lifeguard at Breezy Point during the summers.

"I think the school was really worried by what it said about my home life," said a laughing Guzikowski, who in fact had a fairly typical suburban upbringing in Brockton, Mass.

"It was explained to us, 'This is why I'm registered a Democrat,' and they'd point to some reason, be it a road or something else," he explained of a typical Elliott upbringing.

Claire Harman's biography about Charlotte Brontë -- the eldest of the Brontë sisters who infamously wrote Jane Eyre -- is a detailed and in-depth look at the writer's life, going beyond her typical melancholy upbringing by exploring her fierce ambition and indisputable creativity. .

Typical middle-American upbringing.

"I had that typical council-house upbringing where you just crave it.

Would it be any great accolade to be admired by him?" Brand says she had a "typical, idyllic country upbringing" in a small Kent village, where she and her two brothers "went to the village school on the village green, and there'd be cricket every Sunday, church, blah blah blah.

MY dad left me a voice mail message a few years ago that's typical of my upbringing and motivation: "Your mother and I just got our Black Enterprise magazine and you are listed in the top African-Americans in corporate America.