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How to use breeder in a sentence

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Breeder means a person who breeds plants or animals (professionally). Example: “I wish more people would look for pets at the shelter before turning to breeders!”

Examples of breeder by meaning

nounA person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).

  • Breeders have figured out that if they can take one haploid set of chromosomes from a cross and copy it (or double it creating a double haploid), they will have a pure line almost instantly.2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 137

nounA pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then...

  • I was wondering if anyone out there could mail me a base for MIT's 'breeder' - the one with 8? puffer trains forming glider-guns.1992 June 17, Bill Sharp, comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
  • A glider-emitting breeder pattern can probably also be constructed in this rule, which would out-radiate any chaotic pattern by a considerable margin.2008 May 31, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

More sentences with breeder

  • I wish more people would look for pets at the shelter before turning to breeders!From the entry shelter
  • Booted Warblers are the more northerly breeders of the two sibling Idunas.2019, Sudhir Vyas, Indian BIRDS, Indian BIRDS Monographs, Booted Warbler Iduna caligata Passage migrant (Fairly common), page 92. From the entry iduna
  • But Courtney Weber, a breeder at Cornell University, is working with Mr.2007 July 25, David Karp, “At Last, Sweet Blackberries Stay the Course”, in New York Times. From the entry primocane
  • The female cichlid fish are called "mouth breeders," which means they incubate eggs in their mouth.2004, A. J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 50. From the entry incubate
  • Some breeders do not like the dog rolls, so they purchase fresh "pet meat" for their dogs.1992, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette - Volume 109, page 117. From the entry dog roll
  • Another option is the fast breeder reactor, or nuclear power based on the fast breeder.1977, United States House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, quoting Wolf Haefele, European Oversight Trip: Report of…. From the entry terawatt-year
  • The other breeder, obviously an old timer, weatherbeaten and squarejawed says, “Nope, Melvin.1952 August 31, Louise Rucks, “Dogs”, in Sunday Magazine (The Daily Oklahoman), Oklahoma City, Okla., page 5, column 1. From the entry squarejawed
  • As a weather breeder a great and unwarranted responsibility has been thus shifted to Johnny Woodchuck.1927 January 30, “Ground-Hog Day Holds Its Own”, in The New York Times, page 10. From the entry whistle pig
  • Surely the pignappers must realize Belinda's worth a great deal more as a breeder than as a barbecue.2014, Charlotte MacLeod, The Luck Runs Out. From the entry pignapper
  • The ancestors of the reindeer breeders originate from Tuwa, which is now an autonomous constituent republic of Russia.2012, Frank Riedinger, Mongolia – Faces of a Nation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=0JRqEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT160. From the entry Tuwa
  • Odd-eyed rats are more common in certain colors, but breeders are trying to develop them in all colors and varieties.2011, Debbie Ducommum, Rats: Practical, Accurate Advice from the Expert, →ISBN. From the entry odd-eyed
  • There’s no club for Maltipoo breeders yet, so your best bet is to look for a breeder of other Poo dogs.2005, Margaret H. Bonham, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Designer Dogs, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry poo
  • Circannual rhythms control reproductive function in seasonal breeders.2000, Martin Hume Johnson, Barry J. Everitt, Essential Reproduction, page 110. From the entry circannual
  • Hi can anyone help me with locating a breeder in Australia who breeds Hackney horses or xbred hackney horses.2000 February 15, Freedom Park Warmbloods, “hackney horse”, in alt.animals.horses.breeding (Usenet), retrieved 20 May 2022. From the entry xbred
  • The rudiments of particulate inheritance were dimly understood already by the breeders of cattle and apples, but nobody was being systematic.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 41. From the entry particulate
  • Solar essentially is infinite, fusion is essentially the same thing as the fast breeder, contrary to the widespread belief.1977, United States House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, quoting Wolf Haefele, European Oversight Trip: Report of…. From the entry terawatt-year
  • Celosia Red Fox won for its breeder—T.1971, Pennsylvania Flower Growers, Bulletin, numbers 236-268. From the entry red fox
  • There was also a possible cost of reproduction detected, with breeders having the lowest survival and prebreeders the highest (Fig 2B ).2015 July 14, “Shifting Effects of Ocean Conditions on Survival and Breeding Probability of a Long-Lived Seabird”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry prebreeders
  • One of the breeders at the show had a litter of puppies, and a thousand dollars later, we went home with one.2007 08, Randi Berger, My Recycled Pets: Diary of a Dog Addict, Danforth Book Distribution, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry briard
  • The availability of a large number of resistant lines in desi and kabuli background should help breeders develop resistant and high-yielding cultivars.1984, M.C. Saxena, editor, Ascochyta Blight and Winter Sowing of Chickpeas. From the entry kabuli
  • A duck-pond laps against the churchyard wall, and it was here that local duck breeders founded a prosperous trade of raising birds for the table.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 213, about Haddenham, Bucks. From the entry duck pond
  • Investigation shows that during the period studied, five properties made no accurate count of breeders (bangtail muster), while two made one count.1965, Australian Veterinary Association, Australian Veterinary Journal, volume 41, page 352. From the entry bangtail muster
  • You’re still a backyard breeder, and you’ve got a bad case of kennel blindness, for all you’ve got a pretty nice dog.1952 August 31, Louise Rucks, quoting a breeder, “Dogs”, in Sunday Magazine (The Daily Oklahoman), Oklahoma City, Okla., page 5. From the entry bitchy
  • The high quality maintained in Missouri mules is due to the extreme care exercised by the breeders of this class of animals.1904, Missouri. Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Walter Williams (editor), The State of Missouri, An Autobiography, page 121. From the entry Missouri mule
  • The equicidal tendency of such mares would dampen the enthusiasm of the most passionate stud, making such an unfortunate stallion what breeders call a “dud stud.”2021, Wendy Doniger, “Horses in Indian Nature and Culture”, in Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History…. From the entry equicidal
  • The breeder who sells the rabbits at a very early age could very well be selling excellent woolers or possibly only average producers, only time will tell.2010, Janice Sephton, James Blake, Angora Rabbits & Their Wool, Midhurst, West Sussex: Beech Publishing House, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry wooler
  • Nucellar embryony allows citrus rootstock breeders to produce F1 hybrids that are highly heterozygous, but produce seedlings that are genetically uniform and identical to the mother tree.2007, Iqrar A. Khan, Citrus Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry embryony
  • Subluxed patellas, more commonly referred to as slipped stifles, like all inherited factors will continue to cripple a breed as long as breeders continue to mate affected animals.2004, Ann Seranne, The Joy of Breeding Your Own Show Dog, page 188. From the entry patella
  • According to Willy Raets (famous dutch breeder who e-mails with AG) it is the above, although he can't tell for sure until the ritten is 3 months old.1999 January 19, Anne M@rie [ Scarlet's Shelter ], “New ratties.. :-))”, in alt.pets.rodents (Usenet). From the entry ritten
  • Even in dynastic situations, where inheritance of the high-quality parental territory is favoured as the primary route to becoming a breeder, severe conflict is expected among potential inheritees.1997, Stephen T. Emlen, “Predicting Family Dynamics in Social Vertebrates”, in John R. Krebs, Nicholas B. Davies, editors, Behavioural…. From the entry inheritee
  • Therefore, the Peruvian native breeders use exclusively a vicuna previously reared from earliest age by an alpaca whenever they want to get the hybrid called ‘pacovicuna’.1981, Hernando De Macedo, Note on Vicuna X Alpaca hybrids, page 1. From the entry pacovicuna
  • "Probabilities are zero to 25 per cent that a dead calf will be a waterhead, but it's something that every cattle breeder should be aware of," Schalles says.1975, The Cattleman - Volume 62, page 12. From the entry waterhead
  • In the 19th century, when these exotic beauties became known, nurseries and other patrons funded expeditions to bring them into the trade, where breeders got to work creating new varieties.2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The…. From the entry slipper orchid
  • A breeder who wants males with great length and breadth of finnage is well advised to choose both the males and females with the most substantial finnage as breeding stock.2008, Freshwater and Marine Aquarium. From the entry finnage
  • In my opinion, the prevalence of the downface (or bucket head, as described by Australian breeder- judge Anne Sorraghan) in the breed is a tremendous threat to correct Airedale type.2003, AKC Gazette - Volume 120, page 78. From the entry downface

Meaning of breeder

  1. noun A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).
  2. noun A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
  3. noun A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focused on the rearing of their own children.

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Questions about breeder in a sentence

How do you use breeder in a sentence?
Breeder is used as a noun. For example: “I wish more people would look for pets at the shelter before turning to breeders!”
What is a short sentence with breeder?
“Celosia Red Fox won for its breeder—T.”
What does breeder mean?
Breeder means a person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).

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