Example Sentences

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The National Institute of Agricultural Botany, just outside Cambridge, has been breeding new varieties of crops for UK farmers for more than a hundred years.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2023

Hein has been breeding and selling horses for over 40 years at the ranch, which sits on the Webb and Zapata county line.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2023

Moses has been breeding Flemish giants for seven years, a man who likes everything big.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022

North Korea has been breeding black swans, which state media has encouraged people to eat amid scarcity of other foods, according to NK News, a website that monitors the regime.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021

Weather has been breeding for several days, and the equinox is here.

From The Iron Trail by Beach, Rex Ellingwood