Example Sentences

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But progress is slower in the industrial transport and manufacturing sectors, where lower fossil-fuel prices over the past year have bred complacency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Nights filled with the melody of How are you, How’s your family, Did you hear, and I met someone, over the hum of fully booked, candlelit restaurants, have bred some of my favorite memories.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2025

In the millennia since humans first settled, we have bred countless plant varieties with advantageous characteristics, such as increased yields, improved quality, resistance to pests or hardiness.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024

A pair of beavers that were released into the wild have bred for the second time, the Cheshire Wildlife Trust said.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2023

Using a different method, Jorge Mora-Urpi, one of Clement’s collaborators, concluded that Indians might have bred the modern peach palm by hybridizing palms from several areas, including the Peruvian Amazon.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann