domesticates
- present tense form of domesticate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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We sense early on, from Mortensen’s delicate handling of their courtship, that this isn’t some musty rehash of the trope where she civilizes him and he domesticates her.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
So these captive wolves have taken on an uneasy status: not wild, nor yet domesticates.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2020
The studio recording offers the sense of abstraction—it distills much of what Coltrane was doing in concert performances, it suggests it, it signifies it, but the album also domesticates it.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2015
The most important ingredient for cheese-making is milk and only domesticates can be milked.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2012
Instead, it was triggered there by the arrival of Southwest Asian domesticates.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
