How to Use crossbreed in a Sentence

crossbreed

1 of 2 verb

• These two species are the most common ducks to crossbreed.
  — Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021
• According to the news release, the breed was the second most searched for in three cities and is a result of crossbreeding two types of dogs.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2023
• Red oaks often crossbreed with pin oaks, and the resulting trees will be yellow and sick in our clay soils.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2021
• Red siskins can crossbreed with canaries to create red canaries, a bird prized by pet owners.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2020
• Red siskins can crossbreed with canaries to create red canaries, a bird long-prized by pet owners across Europe and in the United States.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2020
• The dogs are crossbred from sociable huskies and hardier Greenland dogs and are baying and pawing for attention.
  — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• The wild pigs in Canada are unique because they were originally crossbred by humans to be larger and more cold-hardy than their feral cousins to the south.
  — Marcus Lashley, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
• So while your fellow co-workers are crossbreeding the chicken with the Macarena, take advantage of that night out with your boss to earn some brownie points.
  — Robert Cocuzzo, Town & Country, 12 Dec. 2016
• The leaf color and shape vary with the variety as many of these plants have been crossbred, creating diversity.
  — Dennis Patton, kansascity, 14 July 2017
• The Grand Canyon bison are descendants of those introduced to the area in the early 1900s as part of a ranching operation to crossbreed them with cattle.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2019
• In search of a genetic basis for these parental behaviors, Bendesky and his colleagues crossbred the two types of mice twice to yield nearly 800 grandpups.
  — Andrea Marks, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
• In search of a genetic basis for these parental behaviors, Bendesky and his colleagues crossbred the two types of mice twice to yield nearly 800 grandpups.
  — Andrea Marks, Scientific American, 26 June 2017
• Right now, men’s fashion is Rico Suave crossbred with Ratso Rizzo.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2018
• The chimeras, or hybrid creatures, that populate Veronica Barker-Barzel’s art crossbreed the banal and the fantastic.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
• But the tests conducted so far suggest that no Vancouver Island orca females have broken social lines to crossbreed for a very long time--for many thousands of years at least.
  — Glen Martin, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• The Grand Canyon bison are descendants of those introduced to northern Arizona in the early 1900s as part of a ranching operation to crossbreed them with cattle.
  — Felicia Fonseca, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Known for his prize-winning Brahman cattle, Cutrer crossbreeds animals and supplies his bulls' semen to cattle breeders around the world.
  — Meridith Edwards, CNN, 3 Sep. 2017
• These working canines were later crossbred and exported across the Roman Empire.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• In Arizona, an unusual rancher is trying to crossbreed cattle to produce less methane gas and better withstand drought.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• First rootstock is planted; the varieties Bays uses have been crossbred to withstand various insects, viruses, molds, and wet conditions—Nemaguard, Lovell, and Hansen.
  — Mike Sager, Esquire, 25 Feb. 2015
• Waterfowl crossbreed more than any other bird—more than 400 combinations of hybrid waterfowl have been recorded.
  — Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021
• These strains are created by crossbreeding sativa and indica plants to produce unique combinations of effects.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2023
• Tangelos A perfect example of weird science, tangelos are the result of super-sweet tangerines that have been crossbred with either pomelos, a grapefruit-like citrus native to South Asia, or a grapefruit.
  — Nikita Richardson, Bon Appetit, 17 Feb. 2017
• Contributor Humans have been crossbreeding and training dogs for centuries to achieve perfect protection companions.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• Because myotonia congenita is a recessive gene, goats that are crossbred with other breeds typically do not display fainting behaviors.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 16 Feb. 2017
• For the uninitiated, heirlooms are typically older varieties that have been reproduced from seed for at least three generations without crossbreeding.
  — Jeanette Marantos, latimes.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• What’s more, say the authors, current conservation practices could be causing these genetically distinct species to crossbreed with one another, effectively fusing them into a single species.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 21 May 2018
• What’s more, current conservation practices could be causing these genetically distinct species to crossbreed with one another, effectively fusing them into a single species.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 25 May 2018
• These two species are the most common ducks to crossbreed.
  — Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021
• According to the news release, the breed was the second most searched for in three cities and is a result of crossbreeding two types of dogs.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2023

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crossbreed

2 of 2 noun

• The pigs may be crossbreeds, and have never met a bellota in their lives.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Moulard is a crossbreed of Pekin and Muscovy, often used for foie gras.
  — Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• Some were home-schooled, and this crossbreed campus provides a bridge to college life.
  — Susan Christian Goulding, Orange County Register, 12 Jan. 2017
• But many of the crossbreeds live healthy lives, and some have even produced offspring—a female liger in a Russian zoo mated with a male lion and gave birth to a so-called liliger in 2012.
  — Ilnar Salakhiev, National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2017
• Both are crossbreeds of Angus cattle and Scottish Highland cows.
  — Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2020
• There, on a 500-acre privately owned farm, a handful of csikos breed and work a stable of Furioso-North Star horses, a crossbreed known for both agility and elegance.
  — Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 14 July 2017
• Mitt Romney is heading to the Senate now despite being a crossbreed of a career executive and a Brooks Brothers mannequin.
  — Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Quartz at Work, 22 July 2019
• Albright, the park visitor who was sitting with his three dogs (a Yorkie, a Westie and Pomeranian-poodle crossbreed), said new Alaska and old might not quite have settled their differences, either.
  — Kirk Johnson, The Seattle Times, 19 Aug. 2017
• Ariel Levy explores the phenomenon of half-wild feline crossbreeds, and Ian Frazier examines the alarming proliferation of feral hogs in the South.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2019
• Gantz’s only option was to blindly engineer, and crossbreed, scores of flies, in hopes that two carrying the recessive mutation would eventually find each other and mate.
  — Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
• Those big-ass crossbreed locusts start decimating crops across the American heartland, quickly multiplying to the point where Dr. Wu, who developed the freak species, warns of an impending food shortage.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2022
• The agronomist is a revered innovator in China, credited with developing the world’s first hybrid rice—a crossbreed that produces higher yields than normal rice.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 25 May 2021
• Specifically, the restaurant uses Rohan duck, a crossbreed created by the company D'Artagnan that includes Pekin and mallard, among others.
  — Julia Thiel, Chicago Reader, 21 Mar. 2018
• Those with pure Florida DNA are believed to be genetically superior to crossbreeds.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2020
• The Pacific Provider is an adventure yacht nestled into its own category, some sort of crossbreed between luxury comfort and rugged maritime freewheeling.
  — Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 19 Apr. 2018
• The pigs may be crossbreeds, and have never met a bellota in their lives.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Moulard is a crossbreed of Pekin and Muscovy, often used for foie gras.
  — Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• Some were home-schooled, and this crossbreed campus provides a bridge to college life.
  — Susan Christian Goulding, Orange County Register, 12 Jan. 2017
• But many of the crossbreeds live healthy lives, and some have even produced offspring—a female liger in a Russian zoo mated with a male lion and gave birth to a so-called liliger in 2012.
  — Ilnar Salakhiev, National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2017
• Both are crossbreeds of Angus cattle and Scottish Highland cows.
  — Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2020
• There, on a 500-acre privately owned farm, a handful of csikos breed and work a stable of Furioso-North Star horses, a crossbreed known for both agility and elegance.
  — Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 14 July 2017
• Mitt Romney is heading to the Senate now despite being a crossbreed of a career executive and a Brooks Brothers mannequin.
  — Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Quartz at Work, 22 July 2019
• Albright, the park visitor who was sitting with his three dogs (a Yorkie, a Westie and Pomeranian-poodle crossbreed), said new Alaska and old might not quite have settled their differences, either.
  — Kirk Johnson, The Seattle Times, 19 Aug. 2017
• Ariel Levy explores the phenomenon of half-wild feline crossbreeds, and Ian Frazier examines the alarming proliferation of feral hogs in the South.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2019
• Gantz’s only option was to blindly engineer, and crossbreed, scores of flies, in hopes that two carrying the recessive mutation would eventually find each other and mate.
  — Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
• Those big-ass crossbreed locusts start decimating crops across the American heartland, quickly multiplying to the point where Dr. Wu, who developed the freak species, warns of an impending food shortage.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2022
• The agronomist is a revered innovator in China, credited with developing the world’s first hybrid rice—a crossbreed that produces higher yields than normal rice.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 25 May 2021
• Specifically, the restaurant uses Rohan duck, a crossbreed created by the company D'Artagnan that includes Pekin and mallard, among others.
  — Julia Thiel, Chicago Reader, 21 Mar. 2018
• Those with pure Florida DNA are believed to be genetically superior to crossbreeds.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2020
• The Pacific Provider is an adventure yacht nestled into its own category, some sort of crossbreed between luxury comfort and rugged maritime freewheeling.
  — Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 19 Apr. 2018

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