breed
Example Sentences
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Researchers selected 23 hybrid tortoises with the closest genetic links to the extinct subspecies and began breeding them in captivity on Santa Cruz island.
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A centre that has been dedicated to the breeding and welfare of rare horses for centuries said it would be cutting back its public facilities due to high costs.
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The death toll is even higher in France and Spain, where many of the seabird populations that breed in the UK spend the winter, raising fears of catastrophic seabird "wreck".
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Harrop has English parents and could have represented Team GB but opted to compete for France, where she was born and bred.
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Spending the money to purchase more female cattle for breeding is too big a financial gamble if grazing pastures dry up again and he has to buy more feed.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
