Sample Sentences for
hygiene
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    Poor personal hygiene is a sign of depression.
    hygiene = cleanliness habits
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    I wasn't sure what Jem resented most, but I took umbrage at Mrs. Dubose's assessment of the family's mental hygiene.  (source)
    hygiene = practices to prevent illness
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    He knew the value of hygiene and he appreciated a healthful diet.  (source)
    hygiene = practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health -- such as cleanliness
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    Somewhere in there was a lecture on personal hygiene by the head Englishman., and then a free election.  (source)
    hygiene = practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health -- such as cleanliness
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    Not for nothing was the word "latrine-rumour" invented; these places are the regimental gossip-shops and common-rooms. We feel ourselves for the time being better off than in any palatial white-tiled "convenience." There it can only be hygienic; here it is beautiful. These are wonderfully care-free hours.  (source)
    hygienic = cleanliness promoting the prevention of illness
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    I had recognized the look of pity from the hygienist at the low-income dental clinic.†  (source)
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    She never wipes her dishes, saying it's unhygienic.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unhygienic means not and reverses the meaning of hygienic. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    They finished the conversation in a halting and awkward manner and she was damn mad, angry at him and at herself, mostly herself, she decided, and she was determined to get back to the grind, to the work of hygiened perfection, shaping herself, willing herself into tighter being.†  (source)
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    But more and more, thanks to the development of hygienics and the consolidation of personal security, natural death was becoming the norm; and for the modern workingman the thought of eternal rest after having exhausted one's energies in labor was not at all horrible, but rather perfectly normal and desirable.†  (source)
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    Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.†  (source)
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    That is the real soul-sickness, the spear in the side, the drag by the neck through the mob-angry town, the Grand Inquisition, the embrace of the Maiden, the rip in the belly with the guts spilling out, the trip to the chamber with the deadly gas that ends in the oven so hygienically clean-only it's worse because you continue stupidly to live.†  (source)
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    If we pay absolutely no attention to what is called hereditary hygiene, we could find ourselves facing a degeneration of the human race.  (source)
    hygiene = practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health
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    Madam Pomfrey, however, felt it might not be very hygienic, and confiscated it.†  (source)
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