How to Use sire in a Sentence

sire

1 of 2 noun

• A lot of women just want a sire.
  — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
• Right, so there’s been a lot of talk about his sire not being a class distance horse.
  — Katia Porzecanski, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2018
• This gray son of the prolific sire Tapit has won four straight races.
  — Melissa Hoppert, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• The mutations then pass down the line from sire to offspring.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2022
• This daughter of More Than Ready should live up to her sire’s name.
  — Jeff Nahill, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2021
• Be sure the sire and dam are certified against hip dysplasia.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 23 Mar. 2020
• Should one of those males rise in a troop and sire many children, his mother’s genes are also spread with them.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• Guys who put number to sires and dams say the 1 1/2 miles may be beyond his stride.
  — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 9 June 2017
• Now, these sires will face-off in a head-to-gorgeous-head competition.
  — Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 22 Mar. 2019
• Zeus, who is gray and brown, was born to a merle sire and brindle dam and was the largest puppy in a litter of five.
  — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 7 May 2022
• Curlin has since become a world-class sire whose offspring have earned more than $10 million.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2017
• Tommy Town also has one of the hottest sires in Grazen, one of my favorites.
  — Eric Sondheimer, latimes.com, 2 July 2018
• Now, the risk of injury that would short-circuit a lucrative career as a sire seems to loom a lot larger.
  — New York Times, 12 June 2018
• Both horses are sons of Uncle Mo, who has emerged as one of the best sires in the sport in recent years.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 12 May 2017
• In some species—lions, for instance—only one male and his closest buddies get the chance to sire offspring.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• My Boy Jack’s male parent (known as a sire) is a horse named Creative Cause.
  — Staff Report, courant.com, 4 May 2018
• The son of sire Union Rags will get another shot with a record of seven wins in his eight career starts.
  — Tod Leonard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2019
• The other part of the name was a tribute to Uncle Mo, who was the sire and owned by Repole.
  — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022
• The sire in both cases is Maku, now 33, kept in a separate enclosure.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2019
• Saunders up, joined his sire, Gallant Fox, as a Triple Crown winner.
  — AL.com, 10 June 2017
• Whitman had never heard of Protonico, the sire of the little horse with the star between his eyes.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2022
• Lucky Pulpit was the sire of California Chrome and died at age 17.
  — Eric Sondheimer, latimes.com, 2 July 2018
• Both are sons of the sire Scat Daddy, who was injured in the 2007 Derby.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 4 May 2018
• His sire is Curlin, a two-time Horse of the Year who finished third in the 2007 Derby.
  — Beth Harris, The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
• For instance, mouse fathers exposed to nicotine sire male pups with livers that are good at disarming not just nicotine but cocaine and other toxins as well.
  — Ivan Amato, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2025
• Menifee, sire of J Boys Echo's dam, Letgomyecho, was unplaced in 1999.
  — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 9 June 2017
• The two litters are half-siblings and share the same sire (male parent), Drumlin, according to NPS.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
• But plenty of champion horses do not produce champion kids, and plenty of lesser racehorses turn out to be outstanding sires.
  — Graham Cornwell, New York Times, 19 June 2026
• In the world of thoroughbred racing, stallions reign supreme, as owners and leading farms try to create champion sire lines that can sustain a breeding enterprise for decades.
  — Graham Cornwell, New York Times, 19 June 2026
• Corporate Power's sire (Curlin) and dam (Road To Victory) both won graded stakes races on the Churchill Downs dirt.
  — Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026

sire

2 of 2 verb

• The horse sired several champion racers.
• Kiko sired two calves, with a third due early this year.
  — Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
• In this strange world, males are fatherless and sire no sons.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2018
• There are about 25 bulls in the herd who sire all of the babies.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
• That even applies to a child which a master sires by his female slave.
  — The Economist, 27 Aug. 2019
• Both calves were sired by Bernard, who is now dad to 17 rhinos.
  — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
• Spike had sired three elephant calves at other zoos, but none survived.
  — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
• The brother lions sired several cubs over their long reign at the zoo.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
• Sperm donors in Taiwan can only sire one child, for instance.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2018
• Morobe sired two daughters as part of a breeding program.
  — Jack Perry, The Providence Journal, 18 Feb. 2026
• And so a fan favorite was … not born exactly, because vampires are sired.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 23 May 2018
• The red-and-black males sire a lot more young, and becoming brown makes the best of a bad situation.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2012
• In this story two primal beings, T’ala’as and Lilu, each sire a child.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021
• Sudan sired two females, offering hope that the species could be preserved.
  — Author: Robyn Dixon, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2018
• The now 22-year-old has sired four Belmont Stakes winners in eight years.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
• Males also mate outside their pods—this means their mothers will not have to support the grandkids sired by their sons.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2023
• The alpha sire leads from the rear and actively keeps the herd moving at the necessary pace.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• Tapit has sired three of the past five Belmont winners, and the bloodlines are strong on the female side, too.
  — courant.com, 7 June 2019
• The males who were most attentive to infants sired five times more children than the least attentive.
  — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• Buddy sired nine puppies before his death in 1998.
  — EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• The notion of seeking out high-quality fathers to sire high-quality kids isn’t new, of course.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 July 2021
• Males that allow females to take food right out of their mouths are more likely to sire offspring with their dining companions.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 27 June 2019
• Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez is back aboard this fast filly sired by Munnings.
  — courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• If all goes well, conservationists hope that Kurt will sire a healthy line of offspring that could one day be returned to the wild.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2020
• Win early sire and steady works indicate readiness and the Robertson barn wins often with babies.
  — Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
• In a drying and warming world, fast-developing meat-eaters and the allegro-singing fathers that sire them might have an edge.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
• The newborn calf was sired by Kyuquot at the San Antonio park by natural means.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 July 2017
• The father, Rafiki, 21, has sired all 14 giraffe born at the zoo, the statement said.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2020
• His post-racing highlight was siring a Venezuelan horse of the year before dying at age 11.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 21 May 2020
• Roscoe has been at the Akron Zoo since 2004 and has sired seven cubs, three of which are still in Akron.
  — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 31 July 2017