"rear" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

rear verbo

rear + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 3
rear one's head • rear several children • rear one's son
rear + preposición
Kolokacji: 21
rear up • reared in • reared on • rear to • reared from • ...
rear + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 7
rear high • suddenly rear • rear upward • reared apart • successfully reared • ...
(1) high, gently
Kolokacji: 2
1. rear high = tylny wysoki rear high
2. gently reared = łagodnie wychować gently reared
  • I've seen it break many a gently reared lady.
  • "Such intemperate language is improper in a gently reared young man," she reproved.
  • How a girl, gently reared, could become infatuated with this rover, unprincipled and of dubious background, is something I cannot understand.
  • She was, after all, a gently reared young woman of good family and marriageable age, capable of bringing her family a powerful alliance.
  • "Elaine is a gently reared lady; I would not give her to such a one," she said.
  • It's a great shock to souls gently reared in places of moderate clime, hope, and dread.
  • Anne, I am aware that you were gently reared - but this is a situation in which rudeness pays off.
  • He had been through worse-but he was not a gently reared young woman.
  • She had obviously been gently reared, no matter her current unfortunate circumstances.
  • It's obvious you and Claire have been gently reared.

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