How to Use domesticate in a Sentence

domesticate

verb

• She jokes that dogs are easier to domesticate than men.
• Horses and oxen have been domesticated to work on farms.
• One of the largest is how many times cats were domesticated in the Middle East.
  — Jerry A. Coyne, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• The plant was first domesticated in eastern Asia around 3,500 BCE, but it was used for its oily seeds and its long, durable fibers.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 June 2019
• Now, the virus is raising alarms beyond egg prices and the enormous loss of wild and domesticated birds.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 14 Mar. 2023
• Dear Readers: Dogs and wolves are the same genus (canis), but the dog has been domesticated.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
• Many of them are lightly domesticated, with a glimpse of a house or a small boat left idle by absent actors.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• And the ethos of rejecting these roles, the mantle of being tamed and domesticated. What impact did that have on you?
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
• Celery was first domesticated as a vegetable in Italy in the 1600s.
  — Ashleigh Spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2018
• By this rule, domesticated dogs are a single species — whether dachshund or Great Dane — but a donkey and a horse are not.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
• What was a fortress on a swamp for their parents was a domesticated home with reading and governesses for them.
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
• Let domesticated reindeer remain on a farm, or better yet, keep them in the wild.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Oct. 2017
• Has the Hummer been thoroughly domesticated in the past two years, or are most buyers just nuts?
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2023
• Our ancestors tilled the earth, domesticated the beasts of the land, all in the hopes that one day, centuries hence, their descendants would be able to invent these spicy cheese puffs.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• It’s always been known that flu spreads from wild birds to domesticated ones, on ponds or in droppings or via small birds that can squeeze past fan covers.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2023
• Whether the horse enjoys contact with water might depend on whether the horse has been domesticated or runs freely.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
• Bread depends on it to make dough rise: yeasts, whether wild or lab-domesticated, consume the simple sugars found in flour.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• Along with pigs, oxen, goats, horses and fowl, dogs are one of the six animals domesticated during the Stone Age.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 11 Sep. 2017
• Here is a current list of states which allow out-of-state businesses to domesticate within the state's borders.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Here, Amit Cohen and Ido Shapira use stark, charcoal-y black and white compositions to watch as a domesticated, human-like dog hears the call of the wild for the first time.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2019
• His research has shown that beans were domesticated twice: in Mesoamerica, where their wild forebears evolved, and in the Andes.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• When Moss reached out to them, the family arranged to bring by the two-month-old domesticated shorthair with tuxedo markings.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• And if humans can figure out a way to domesticate hyenas, then jackals and dingoes cannot be far behind.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• Mueller told Ars Technica that erect knotweed was likely domesticated on tiny farms on the western front of the Appalachians.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2018
• Traveling with Small Pet Dogs Most domesticated dogs weighing 20 pounds or less are allowed to travel with their owners in the cabin of the plane.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
• In fact, millet was one of the first foods domesticated by humans; its cultivation dates back over 7,000 years.
  — Ashleigh Spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2018
• Early reviews of Raisin, which debuted in 1959 and made Hansberry the first Black woman with a show on Broadway, were quick to domesticate her.
  — Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
• While the majority of yaks are domesticated, wild yaks still exist in small groups.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Finbar is the longtime gunfighter who works by a strict moral code, looking to finally hang up his spurs and domesticate himself.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• Look at red frangipani trees and indigo plants, both endemic to the region, as well as a vanilla plant, which was first domesticated in Mexico.
  — Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024