How to Use wean in a Sentence

wean

verb

• The calves are weaned at an early age.
• Shock — or the desire to shock — is hard to wean off of.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
• As the West tries to quit all things Russian, oil seems to be the hardest thing to wean itself off of.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
• Bat colonies then must remain untouched until the pups are weaned and able to fly in the fall.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023
• The baby is close to the end of being weaned, and took bits of veggie treats from a keeper.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
• Take things slow to wean your body off of added sugar and focus on one step at a time.
  — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 24 Feb. 2020
• Pups of all ages, from newborns to the fully weaned, lay dead or dying at the high-tide line.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• Biden’s plan aims to wean the country off of fossil fuels.
  — Politifact Staff, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2020
• One fall, an ex-boyfriend convinced me to wean myself off Zoloft.
  — Bel Banta, Health.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Instead, central banks haven’t been able to wean their economies off them.
  — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 May 2019
• Hammes said the IQAir report is even more reason for the world to wean off fossil fuel.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• In any case, in Smil’s view the world could take many decades to wean itself off fossil fuels.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Oct. 2021
• The essential premise, for those not weaned on the show, is straightforward.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2020
• Most babies are weaned from their moms within four months.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• And in the lion, the appearance of this tooth at ten months of age signals the end of the weaning period.
  — Katie Cottingham, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
• That may help explain why it’s been hard thus far for the state to wean itself off of natural gas.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• But, despite its name, what the bill does to wean the U.S. off of carbon is much more important.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
• The new dose controlled his blood glucose well, and so our new goal was to wean him fully off of insulin.
  — Ricardo Nuila, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
• For those of us who are still wedded to meat, the question is how to wean ourselves off eating quite so much of it.
  — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• By honing Burden’s taste, Horowitz weaned him from Cohn.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
• That is meant to help wean the country from fossil fuels.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
• Of course, the ban of Juul could also lead many adults, who are using the product to wean of cigarettes, in the dust.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 15 Nov. 2018
• The attempt to wean herself off to save money nearly killed her.
  — USA Today, 6 Apr. 2021
• Taylor Swift fans are the demographic that all the big hotel groups want to wean off Airbnb.
  — Sarah Turner, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• The West is choking Russia with sanctions and vowing to wean itself from its oil and gas.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• But the tools existed to wean them out, and the balance of good versus bad tended to tip toward the former.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• The group says the research needs to be weaned away from public funding and taken up by the private sector.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019
• Her puppies are all weaned and now its Kola’s turn to find a forever home.
  — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
• The $300 billion will go to developing countries who need the cash to wean themselves off the coal, oil and gas that causes the globe to overheat, adapt to future warming and pay for the damage caused by climate change’s extreme weather.
  — Seth Borenstein, Sibi Arasu, TIME, 24 Nov. 2024
• Skipping a dose, doubling a dose, or weaning off a medication can increase your risk of symptoms recurring.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025