How to Use breeding in a Sentence

breeding

noun

• She became involved in the breeding of sled dogs.
• His politeness shows good breeding.
• The law prohibits public contact with big cats and the new breeding of cubs for private possession.
  — Alexandra Myers, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024
• Wildlife across the Northeast, including millions of breeding birds, felt it, too.
  — Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
• The park is also home to a small captive breeding population of corncrakes.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• The prior owners, who run a breeding operation, released the corgi to the agency’s care.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2022
• Droughts usually wreck mosquitoes’ habitats by drying up moist breeding grounds, such as stagnant pools of water or swampy backyards.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 31 July 2022
• Most breeding methods currently used in cereal crops can only generate a yield increase of less than 1 percent, so this is a pretty big deal.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 29 July 2022
• Standing water fosters mosquito breeding, Kuritzkes said, which increases the risk of dengue or West Nile virus.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
• Walters discovered that the loss of the longleaf pine and similar tree species in the U.S. Southeast was harming the birds' breeding areas.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• 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
• After years of breeding, ‘Black Parrot’ has risen to the top as one of the darkest tulips on the market.
  — Sunset Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• Hooting this time of the year can also be a prelude to breeding.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• 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
• In the spring, the birds return northward in time for breeding and nesting seasons.
  — Cecilia Garzella, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
• Jim Luby has led the U's fruit breeding program since 1982.
  — Axios Twin Cities, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The sparrow brought into the world in a breeding center cared for by people aren’t doing quite that well in the wild.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024
• Mei Xiang and Tian Tian were on loan for a research and breeding program.
  — CBS News, 17 May 2024
• And through the Sintashta’s breeding, a new equine bloodline emerged.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024