sire

Three years on, the Purosangue remains an astonishing presence on any street, a provocation, an outrage, a moral panic—indeed, sire, very like a Ferrari.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

And second, female cats can actually carry litters fathered by multiple males, so more partners means more chance of having a strong, healthy sire for at least some of the kittens.

From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2024

A corner stall in the stallion barn still bears Secretariat’s name and that of his sire, Bold Ruler, among those of other elites who have inhabited the space.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2023

With a race as long as the Belmont, one factor to consider is horses whose sire have excelled at producing distance-loving runners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2023

"It's a saying my husband used to tell me after I had one of the girls. Good bulls sire cows. I remember the night Fifi was born."

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

As it turns out, golden retrievers have the highest proportion of popular sires of any dog breed.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2023

The mare was sired by Northern Dancer, the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby in 1964 who went on to become one of the sport’s greatest sires.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

He will join Dubawi, Frankel and Into Mischief among the most valuable sires in horse racing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2022

Rickard said this compared to recently frozen semen from 19 sires used to inseminate 1,048 ewes, of which 618 were successfully impregnated.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2019

Whatever their sires or their grandsires might have been back in Westeros before their exile, the men of the Golden Company were sellswords now, and no sellsword could be trusted.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The truth is that Smith no more sired economics than Abner Doubleday invented baseball, and the American economist Murray Rothbard wrote a book to prove it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Baffert’s influence can also be found in the breeding for this race with six having been sired by horses that Baffert has trained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025

Otto sired six calves, including Dara - its most recent offspring - who was born in January 2023.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025

Mouse pups sired by dysbiotic fathers showed significantly lower birth weights and an increased rate of postnatal mortality.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024

If this sounds silly, bear in mind that before the development of modern embryological studies, people had no solid evidence that babies are always sired by a single father rather than by many.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Paramount Global has created numerous spin-offs of its main cable channels, with Nickelodeon siring five programming offspring, Nick Jr., Nick at Nite, TeenNick, Nicktoons and Nick Music.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023

A Dutch court banned a man Friday from donating any more of his sperm after his donations led to the siring of 550 to 600 children.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Gun Runner, another horse of the year who is proving himself as a stallion, siring this year’s entrants Taiba and Cyberknife, finished third in 2016.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2022

"Females benefit by preventing these unwanted males from siring any of her young. That means her chosen partner gets most of the paternity, and therefore she gains the benefit through her offspring," says Dr Brennan.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2021

To me has been given the privilege of siring a man, and I shall not affront him with requests for further favors.

From The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne