house-trained
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of house-trained
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Dannie says Annie is "definitely house-trained" and "thinks she's a dog" after following the example of the family's other pets in her early months.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2022
I sure hope Coach Lake and his staff get the Huskies house-trained soon.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2021
As before, the characters are equipped with sidekicks: a monkey for the hero, a parrot for Jafar, and a house-trained tiger for Jasmine.
From The New Yorker • May 24, 2019
It was the family’s new puppy, a black-and-brown rescue named Timothy, who was being house-trained within a mesh-walled pen.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2018
Early in Barack’s second term, we’d added a new puppy to the household—Sunny—a free-spirited rambler who seemed to see no point in being house-trained, given how big her new house was.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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