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How to use breed in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Breed means to produce offspring sexually; to bear young. Example: “A pond breeds fish.”

Examples of breed by meaning

verbTo give birth to; to be the native place of.

  • A pond breeds fish.
  • A northern country breeds stout men.

verbTo arrange the mating of (specific animals).

  • She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.

verbTo propagate or grow (plants) in an effort to give (them) certain qualities.

  • He tries to breed blue roses.

verbTo take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.

  • born and bred

verbTo yield or result in.

  • disaster breeds famine
  • familiarity breeds contempt

nounAll animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

  • a breed of tulip
  • a breed of animal

nounA group of people with shared characteristics.

  • People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.

More sentences with breed

  • All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.From the entry variant
  • Pink- and apricot-coloured irises have also been bred in some species.From the entry irises
  • This breed of canary is unflighted for the first six months of its life.From the entry unflighted
  • Book lovers are a dying breed; now people just watch online videos.From the entry dying breed
  • While I've met many good doctors in my life, this one was a breed apart.From the entry a breed apart
  • Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving.From the entry retrieve
  • The Siamese is a pointed breed of cat.From the entry pointed
  • Conscious condescension breeds panderers and enemies, not friends.From the entry condescension
  • She is a born and bred New Yorker.From the entry born and bred
  • Oh, you're from America? —Born and bred.From the entry born and bred
  • The beagle and basset were bred as pack hounds.From the entry pack hound
  • In this discussion, we will lump together various breeds of spaniels, because the differences among them don't matter for our practical purposes here.From the entry lump together
  • The pup wasn’t only the same breed as her pooch, Piper, but the same color as well.2026 January 17, Angela Barbuti, “Puppy Love: Couple with same dog breed met on apps and fell in love — and so did their pets”, in NY Post. From the entry pooch
  • The majority were male, with breeds including basenji, boerboel, German shepherd, labrador retriever, local, maltese and pitbull.2024, Steven Kakooza, Wilfred Eneku, Esther Nabatta, Eddie M Wampande, Paul Ssajjakambwe, et al., “Integrating multi-wet laboratory…. From the entry basenji
  • A pair of ospreys bred at a confidential nesting site in Co.2023 August 24, Mairead Sheehy, “'Like finding long-lost treasure': Ospreys breed in Ireland for first time in 200 years”, in Irish Examiner. From the entry osprey
  • My girlfriends love being bred into, containing all of my smelly goonjuice.2023 November 17, @EloCrinkle, Twitter. From the entry pampie
  • The Diba Expedition gave birth to a new breed of cybernationalists and populists—the Little Pinks.2022, Guobin Yang, The Wuhan Lockdown. From the entry little pink
  • And the love bred a shameful number of Snamione fanfics in the coming years.2021, Leighann Hart, “About the Author”, in Loving Rosenfeld, Crooked Hart Press, LLC, →ISBN. From the entry Snamione
  • Emma was bred at the Leofoo Safari Park in Hsinchu County, northwestern Taiwan.2020 September 23, “Taiwan offers Japan endangered rhino to help save species”, in The Japan Times. From the entry Hsinchu
  • That meant her captor was either an incantor—no other demonic breed possessed and wielded magick—or a practitioner.2019, Suzanne Wright, Shadows, Piatkus, →ISBN. From the entry incantor
  • However, unless you have a nonshedding, nonlicking breed, there's no such thing as a truly hypoallergenic dog.2017, Howard Bennett, The Fantastic Body: What Makes You Tick & How You Get Sick. From the entry goldfish
  • Staffords are a loyal and lovable breed that are great with children.2016 October 6, Clare Damodaran, “Staffords are a loyal and lovable breed that are great with children. Digger had a great time on the…. From the entry Stafford
  • So too for that whole breed of Eutyches, the Monophysites, Monothelites, and Acephalites.2016, Riemer Faber, transl., Synopsis Purioris Theologiae, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry acephalite
  • Scientists believe the Higgs bison were offspring of steppe bison and aurochs, an extinct breed of cattle.2016 October 19, Robby Berman, “Scientists Identify the Elusive Higgs Bison”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2022. From the entry Higgs bison
  • Tao is not just a butcher, he is one of a dying breed.2016 January 24, Achlys Xi, Karen Yu, Zoe So, “Local meat disappearing from Hong Kong tables”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the…. From the entry Ta Kwu Ling
  • The Kathiawari and Marwari horses are the only two pure Indian breeds.2016, BPI India Pvt Ltd., Little Known Facts About India, page 10. From the entry Kathiawari
  • Some adult dogs will also do this and it is considered normal for the breed.2015, Ross D. Clark, Medical, Genetic & Behavioral Risk Factors of Sussex Spaniels and Clumber Spaniels. From the entry kippering
  • If you end up with others of your breed, it’ll be a wonderfully nurturing and stress-free environment.2015, Aryna Ryan, Creativity: The Ultimate Teen Guide (It Happened to Me; number 43), Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry golden retriever
  • The herdowner was advised not to breed from the affected animal.2015 July 2, Conor G. McAloon et al., “Bovine congenital erythropoietic protoporphyria in a crossbred limousin heifer in Ireland”, in…. From the entry herdowner
  • Shih Tzu tend to get along better with other Shih Tzu than other breeds.2014, Jon Han, “Your Chosen Breed: The Shih Tzu”, in The Complete Guide to the Shih Tzu, [United Kingdom?]: For Dogs Sake, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry shih tzu

Meaning of breed

  1. verb To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
  2. verb To give birth to; to be the native place of.
  3. verb To mate.

Full definition of breed

Questions about breed in a sentence

How do you use breed in a sentence?
Breed is used as a verb and noun. For example: “A pond breeds fish.”
What is a short sentence with breed?
“born and bred”
What does breed mean?
Breed means to produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breed (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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