BREED in a Sentence

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95 example sentences for BREED, such as:
1. All species will breed inter se.
2. A little neglect may breed great mischief.
3. Inequality and poverty breed class conflict.
4. Certain breeds are more dangerous than others.
5. Entertainers of this sort are now a dying breed.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BREED
breed
 n.  a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
 v.  copulate with a female, used especially of horses
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  Get ye to Gretna Green; couch on the wet grass and breed vipers.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
2  She saw in him the peculiar tight rebuff against anyone of the lower classes who might be really climbing up, which she knew was characteristic of his breed.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  She looked soft and warm herself, as a ripe pear, and she was an amazon of the real old breed.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  They were small, hardy animals, of a breed between Galloway and Exmoor, and were known as "heath-croppers" here.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
5  The beaming sight, and the penetrating warmth, seemed to breed in him a cumulative cheerfulness, which soon amounted to delight.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
6  "It depends upon the breed of men quite as much as on the county," said Dr. Mortimer.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
7  In a basket, swung from his neck, cowered a dozen very recent puppies of an indeterminate breed.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  Luther, according to the scandal of his monkish enemies, was a brat of that hellish breed; nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned among the New England Puritans.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
9  His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50
10  I am told you had a remarkable breed of tumblers.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXII
11  And to do this it was necessary to look after the land himself, not to let it, and to breed cattle, manure the fields, and plant timber.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 10
12  They do not breed, nor do they become fewer in number, and they are tended by the goddesses Phaethusa and Lampetie, who are children of the sun-god Hyperion by Neaera.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XII
13  I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
14  Since my last return I find the breed is considerably increased, especially the sheep, which I hope will prove much to the advantage of the woollen manufacture, by the fineness of the fleeces.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
15  In their marriages, they are exactly careful to choose such colours as will not make any disagreeable mixture in the breed.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  Inequality and poverty breed class conflict.
2  The breed is almost directly descended from the Eurasian wild boar.
3  A little neglect may breed great mischief.
4  Sue is one of the new breed of British women squash players who are making a real impact.
5  Little old ladies who had relished home baking were a dying breed and the younger generation simply couldn't relate to them.
6  Entertainers of this sort are now a dying breed.
7  All species will breed inter se.
8  In a fast neutron reactor, this process is optimized so that it can breed fuel, often using a depleted uranium blanket around the core.
9  They will return to breed in the fall, and the male will reclaim his burrow, waiting to reconnect with his mate.
10  Mosquitoes commonly breed in ponds of stagnant water.
11  The Yukon's most common and widespread gull species arrive in early-May and breed throughout the area.
12  So if you destroy the habitat in which these fish feed and breed then you're going to destroy sustainability of that fishery.
13  The animals are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity.
14  All of these are quite useful breeds whose potentiality has not been realised.
15  Certain breeds are more dangerous than others.