Example Sentences

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Although Loth-cats usually live in the wild, Ahsoka’s wayward apprentice Sabine Wren appears to have domesticated at least one of them.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023

These traits may have evolved because elephants have domesticated themselves, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2023

The young Canadian painter Matthew Wong has an illustrator’s vivid sense of color and an obsessiveness he seems to have domesticated into a resource.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2018

But the definition still holds if you consider that people, like cats and dogs, may have domesticated themselves.

From Time • Apr. 13, 2014

In England, you see," Mr. Britling remarked, after they had parted from the reverend gentleman, "we have domesticated everything.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)