How to Use interbreed in a Sentence

interbreed

verb

• But then came a sudden spike in interbreeding in the 1950s.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• The dire wolf didn't seem to interbreed with other species — as dogs, wolves, coyotes and other canids do.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
• Red deer and elk share the same genus and can interbreed even though they are found in the wild on two different continents.
  — Parish Howard, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
• In return, the aliens want to interbreed with humans to create a hybrid species.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 22 June 2018
• Various species living at the same time may have met and interbred as well.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
• But in just the last 70 or so years, the two groups began interbreeding, research from a pair of new papers suggests.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• The birds showed a preference for birds of the same scent, which keeps the two populations from interbreeding.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Nov. 2019
• Two of these tumbleweeds interbred at some point to form a new species, Salsola ryanii, which is about 5 feet in height and nearly as wide.
  — Douglas Main, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2016
• Escaped salmon from ocean pens compete with wild fish, and can interbreed with wild fish to yield hybrid offspring that are less fit to survive in the wild, Crabbe said.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
• Each branch, the new study suggests, interbred with the ancestors of living humans.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• Could the lack of a chin in the Banyoles fossil be a result of interbreeding with Neandertals, who also lacked a chin?
  — Brian Anthony Keeling, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
• At some point, the wolf interbred with a domestic dog breed, passing along the unique mountaineering gene that persists in the Tibetan mastiff to this day.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
• The new data also show that fall-run and spring-run salmon often interbreed, Anderson says.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 29 Oct. 2020
• The question of how long ago and where this interbreeding occurred is still being debated.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Jan. 2024
• Even so, our species interbred with both and picked up genetic markers that are still detectable in some people today.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• In its place, new waves of migration and conquest, interbreeding and replacement, swept westward across the steppe.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
• Not so in Africans, the story goes, because modern humans and our extinct cousins interbred only outside of Africa.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 30 Jan. 2020
• Some of those clues suggest that interbreeding plays a larger role in the formation of new species than previously thought.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• These were gradual processes, with the end game being separate and distinct species that should not have been able to interbreed.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2018
• These in turn evolved into Neanderthals and Denisovans — though the two continued to interbreed for some time, as the remains at Denisova Cave reveal.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2021
• This is important since wolves and coyotes can and do interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
  — Ret Talbot, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• The two hominid groups likely encountered each other in Europe and interbred at times.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• Neither can interbreed with whitetail deer found in Georgia.
  — Parish Howard, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
• The two populations don’t interbreed and don’t even communicate with the same dialect, Giles said.
  — Rocky Barker and Brittany Peterson, idahostatesman, 9 July 2017
• However, the record in more recent times, on the order of a few hundred thousand years ago to a few tens of thousands of years ago, is again complicated by interbreeding.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Capra's new study takes advantage of the fact that Neanderthals interbred with modern humans (yes, Jean Auel was a prescient genius).
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2019
• Every middle-school student learns the dogma: a species is defined as a group of organisms that interbreed and produce fertile young.
  — Daniel Rubinoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2022
• The discovery means the two groups, who once interbred and left most humans alive today with traces of Neanderthal DNA, may have overlapped for several thousand years.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• Perri tells Wei-Haas that the scientists expected to find evidence of interbreeding between the pre-contact pups and the new arrivals.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 6 July 2018
• Researchers knew that at one point the Tibetan mastiff interbred with a Tibetan subspecies of gray wolf because the two share a genetic mutation that does not appear in the genome of other dog breeds.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024