rare breed

noun

: a relatively rare group
Back then, stay-at-home dads were a rare breed.

Examples of rare breed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Garcia was that rare breed of worker who would notice something around the office that wasn’t getting done, and offer to do it. Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024 In addition to artwork depicting the Russian leader, Kim also gave Putin two Pungsan hunting dogs, a rare breed native to North Korea. Stella Kim, NBC News, 20 June 2024 See The Connectors In Los Angeles’ labyrinthian networks of Bloods and Crips, with their countless subsets and shifting alliances and feuds, Townsend is a rare breed: a mediator with credibility on both sides. Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024 These mark the experience behind the wheel of a manual transmission car — now a rare breed in the U.S. Though the American auto industry focuses on automatic vehicles, some car enthusiasts continue to hit the road with a stick shift. Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2024 Drake is the rare breed of a rapper who can craft a scathing diss track that damages another artist’s career trajectory and doubles as a song of the summer contender. Michael Saponara, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 Scientists are making a mountain out of a mole hill after finding a rare breed of sightless burrowing mammal not seen for the better part of a century. Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023 Psyche is the largest of a rare breed of asteroids – those that are metal-rich, known as M-types. Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023 Lefty quarterbacks are a rare breed in today’s NFL; Tagovailoa is currently the only lefthanded starter. Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023

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“Rare breed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rare%20breed. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.

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