How to Use inbred in a Sentence

inbred

adjective

• They have an inbred love of freedom.
• So new eggs will have to be made from other rhinos — otherwise the northern whites will be too inbred to thrive.
  — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
• But inbred stereotypes of gender roles can take a long time to overcome; time that most corporations don’t have.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• Combined with male deaths caused by fishing activities near the shore, there might not be enough males to keep the species from becoming inbred, Schofield says.
  — Tara Santora, Scientific American, 2 June 2020
• In the early 2000s, one of these inbred populations suffered an outbreak of mange.
  — Jennie Erin Smith, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Now, the inhabitants are a credulous, inbred bunch, prone to mottled skin, patches of white hair and walking in their sleep.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
• What part did his inbred allegiance—to family, to country, to being a member of a team—play in his decision to drive the getaway car?
  — Nancy Rommelmann, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• Even if the goal is reached, Robinson said there will still be an inbred population, which could lead to a larger mortality rate.
  — Andrew Nicla, azcentral, 23 June 2019
• When the microbes were present, the hybrids grew better than an inbred variety, as expected, with roots weighing 20% more.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 29 July 2021
• The authors also found evidence that koalas in the north have more genetic diversity than those in the south, which are largely inbred.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 2 July 2018
• So no one doubted Sergei Bobrovsky’s inbred, blue-collar toughness.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2022
• Behind the inbred upper-class arrogance, the taste for adventure, lies the self-hate of a vain misfit for whom nothing will ever be worthy of his loyalty.
  — Philip Kerr, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• The Kentucky native with an inbred distrust of all things government isn’t getting a hand from her two children, who have medical troubles of their own and aren’t local.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• All but nine survived to breed — a son bred with his mother, a daughter with her father, and the rest of the offspring with each other — producing a terrifically inbred lineage.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2016
• Three inbred cannibals terrorize a medical student and five campers in a remote area of West Virginia.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Two wolves, half-siblings and father and daughter — an inbred, genetic tangle that probably should have contributed to their demise long ago.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2018
• This Joan is driven to lead men into battle not by the voices of saints nor a particular fealty to the French monarchy, but by a personal desire for vengeance and an inbred itch for violence.
  — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• Charles Darwin married his first cousin; his work on inbred plants led him to fear that the couple’s children, seven of whom survived into adulthood, would suffer the ill effects of the familial connection.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2017
• The Jax’s Harrison questioned whether the inbred mice used in the study were representative of humans, who are genetically diverse.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 22 Mar. 2018
• That bleak stretch remains a testament to the stubborn nature of Downeasters and their inbred ability to endure harsh conditions without complaint.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
• Over just a few generations, the blue agave gene pool has become dangerously inbred, Cuellar warns, and such a monoculture is easy prey for a disease that could devastate the industry.
  — Max Falkowitz, GQ, 3 May 2018
• Because captive birds tend to be slightly inbred, certain versions of a gene become predominant and can serve as a kind of fingerprint for captivity.
  — National Geographic, 21 May 2018
• Among those instincts could be warm feelings about strongmen and an inbred hunch that allies are actually taking advantage of America.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 14 June 2018
• Other troubling signs: a significant population of juvenile animals or such inbred or hybrid species as white tigers or ligers, a lion crossed with a tiger.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• Lathrop started carrying out experiments with cancer and inbred mice strains in 1910.
  — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2018
• A 10-year-old boy is being racially terrorized by little inbred elementary schoolers in Jeff Sessions’ great state of Alabama.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 14 May 2017
• The torments of politics are the fault of family life, with all its resentments and inborn (or inbred) rivalries, projected onto a political scale.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
• But the severely inbred population has dropped steadily and is at its lowest point since biologists began observing the relationship between wolves and moose in the 1950s.
  — John Flesher, The Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2017
• Fans jumped back in, rationally noting that the other school is populated by inbred devil worshippers.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• That’s the headliner, on the festival’s main stage: Ibsen’s classic about a family and a society possessed (and literally sickened) by inbred amorality.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019

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