How to Use breeding in a Sentence

breeding

noun

• She became involved in the breeding of sled dogs.
• His politeness shows good breeding.
• The horse can make more money in the breeding shed than racing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• While the heard is insured, the ranch would lose the advantage of years of breeding.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 19 Dec. 2022
• The more races a horse wins, the greater its value when breeding and the value of its offspring.
  — Ray Walia, Cpa, Cma, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• The tiny foundling — so small the women could scoop it up by hand — means that there is at least one breeding pair in the area.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• That can mean missing out on prey or a mate for breeding.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• Now, the colony at the zoo marks the last large breeding population in the state of Illinois, Ward said.
  — Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
• The first breeding from the program occurred in 2012 on Lough Derg, County Clare.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
• Young bucks may do a small amount of the breeding, if a doe falls into their lap, but few will work hard to find one.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
• The castors are located under the skin near the vent, and are most full in the spring when breeding season is on.
  — Joseph Biebert, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
• In the Midwest, 80 unique breeding pairs were counted across all five Great Lakes with a total of 85 nests.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Nov. 2023
• Zoo officials say the park didn’t have a viable breeding pair of the monkeys for many years.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• Western way of life?—it’s not so far away from the world of thoroughbred horse breeding.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2023
• And given the successful panda breeding program at the San Diego Zoo, this is great for the species, too.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Take the example of corn: Before plant breeding, roughly 20 to 30 bushels were grown on an acre of land.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
• Tooth roots from black bear sows show the one-year-on, one-year-off pattern of their breeding cycle, Gary explains.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Sep. 2023
• In the spring, beavers will also leave breeding signs in the form of castor mounds, which look like little hills of fresh mud along the waterline.
  — Joseph Biebert, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
• Colburn’s book tells the stories of three women who meet at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• The law, which will come into effect in 2027, will ban the breeding, slaughtering and selling dogs for their meat.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2024
• The return journey after breeding is even more of a puzzle.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
• The release of the southern mountain yellow-legged frogs on Aug. 29 and 30 capped a trademark breeding process at the zoo, where the eggs of the rare amphibian are pampered and hatched.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The female, after breeding and nest-building, lays her eggs and seals herself in with her droppings.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• Then in 1996, two more pandas, Bai Yun and Shi Shi, came as part of a breeding loan under a panda research program.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
• Still, mourning doves are not in decline, thanks to their prolific breeding habits.
  — John Heasly, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• The rhinos usually have a meeting each day of Nia's breeding window.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
• Currently, there are at least 25 breeding colonies along the Pacific coast.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
• But, the closing of Golden Gate Fields, and the effects on breeding and racing in California is the latest crisis on the board’s radar.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• Preventing them from breeding is important, Izon said, for the safety of us and our neighbors.
  — Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2024
• Not that the fine points of the breeding program ever acquire a huge amount of clarity in this May release from Neon, premiering in Berlin.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024