How to Use breeding in a Sentence

breeding

noun

• She became involved in the breeding of sled dogs.
• His politeness shows good breeding.
• But the birds return to nests, so lost nests shrink their breeding potential.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
• The breeding program was so successful that it was retired.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• Many turtles are finishing up their annual breeding and egg-laying cycles, which also puts them on the move.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 June 2022
• The group integrates dogs into law enforcement and military — and does training and breeding as well.
  — Fox News, 21 June 2022
• Bartoszek said removal of female pythons plays a critical role in disrupting the breeding cycle.
  — CBS News, 22 June 2022
• Owners can also recoup expenses by selling puppies and charging stud fees for breeding.
  — Christine Mui, Fortune, 23 June 2022
• The essentially inedible, toothless-grin-bearing, orange orb fruit that graces so many front stoops this time of year is a bit of a plant breeding anomaly.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2024
• Henriette’s great distinction—besides her breeding and her finesse, in every way superior to his—was to have dumped him.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• The purpose of the moth project is to build breeding populations that enable visitors to see luna and cecropia moths at the cemetery in late spring and early summer.
  — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
• If more tortoises such as Fernanda are found, conservationists could begin a captive breeding program to keep her species alive.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 June 2022
• Port Lympne houses a number of rare and endangered species such as Siberian tigers and has Britain’s largest breeding herd of black rhinoceros.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 June 2022
• But construction got under way earlier this years on a sanctuary for the colony of monkeys, whose ancestors escaped from a breeding farm in the 1940s.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 15 June 2022
• Clans of meerkats, the cute mongooses that stand up on their back legs to scan the African savanna, are dominated by a single female animal that monopolizes breeding.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 June 2022
• The horse can make more money in the breeding shed than racing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• While the heard is insured, the ranch would lose the advantage of years of breeding.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 19 Dec. 2022
• The more races a horse wins, the greater its value when breeding and the value of its offspring.
  — Ray Walia, Cpa, Cma, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• The tiny foundling — so small the women could scoop it up by hand — means that there is at least one breeding pair in the area.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• That can mean missing out on prey or a mate for breeding.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• Now, the colony at the zoo marks the last large breeding population in the state of Illinois, Ward said.
  — Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
• The first breeding from the program occurred in 2012 on Lough Derg, County Clare.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
• Young bucks may do a small amount of the breeding, if a doe falls into their lap, but few will work hard to find one.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
• After years of breeding, ‘Black Parrot’ has risen to the top as one of the darkest tulips on the market.
  — Sunset Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• Hooting this time of the year can also be a prelude to breeding.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• The castors are located under the skin near the vent, and are most full in the spring when breeding season is on.
  — Joseph Biebert, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
• In the Midwest, 80 unique breeding pairs were counted across all five Great Lakes with a total of 85 nests.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Nov. 2023
• Zoo officials say the park didn’t have a viable breeding pair of the monkeys for many years.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• Western way of life?—it’s not so far away from the world of thoroughbred horse breeding.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2023
• In the spring, the birds return northward in time for breeding and nesting seasons.
  — Cecilia Garzella, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024