How to Use wean in a Sentence

wean

verb

• The calves are weaned at an early age.
• Shock — or the desire to shock — is hard to wean off of.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
• If you’ve been obsessed with the Winter Olympics, this could wean you off the games.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Then, over two to 12 weeks, the infant is weaned off morphine.
  — Catherine Saint Louis, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 July 2017
• Eight weeks is same time that they are weaned from their mothers.
  — Alex Kingsbury, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018
• Some cats might do this when they are weaned too early.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, courant.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• All my daughter’s peers have been weaned and have been sleeping alone through the night for the last three years.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 9 May 2018
• As the West tries to quit all things Russian, oil seems to be the hardest thing to wean itself off of.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
• Bat colonies then must remain untouched until the pups are weaned and able to fly in the fall.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023
• The baby is close to the end of being weaned, and took bits of veggie treats from a keeper.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
• Take things slow to wean your body off of added sugar and focus on one step at a time.
  — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 24 Feb. 2020
• Pups of all ages, from newborns to the fully weaned, lay dead or dying at the high-tide line.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• Biden’s plan aims to wean the country off of fossil fuels.
  — Politifact Staff, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2020
• The problem can start as soon as babies are weaned and able to eat solid foods.
  — Jane E. Brody, miamiherald, 12 Dec. 2017
• One fall, an ex-boyfriend convinced me to wean myself off Zoloft.
  — Bel Banta, Health.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Instead, central banks haven’t been able to wean their economies off them.
  — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 May 2019
• Efforts are under way to wean Japan off genkin, or cash.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• Hammes said the IQAir report is even more reason for the world to wean off fossil fuel.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• In any case, in Smil’s view the world could take many decades to wean itself off fossil fuels.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Oct. 2021
• The essential premise, for those not weaned on the show, is straightforward.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2020
• Most babies are weaned from their moms within four months.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• And in the lion, the appearance of this tooth at ten months of age signals the end of the weaning period.
  — Katie Cottingham, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
• That may help explain why it’s been hard thus far for the state to wean itself off of natural gas.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• But, despite its name, what the bill does to wean the U.S. off of carbon is much more important.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
• The new dose controlled his blood glucose well, and so our new goal was to wean him fully off of insulin.
  — Ricardo Nuila, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
• For those of us who are still wedded to meat, the question is how to wean ourselves off eating quite so much of it.
  — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• By honing Burden’s taste, Horowitz weaned him from Cohn.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
• That is meant to help wean the country from fossil fuels.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
• The poster noted that a local rescue group advised that the cat stay in the storage room for the next five weeks until her kitten finished weaning.
  — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
• The National Institute of Drug Abuse is funding a study to investigate how best to wean people off buprenorphine who have been on it for a least a year and want to stop taking it.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Zak Mouton, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025