housebreak

Example Sentences

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Thanks to this bin they’ll be easy to find when I need to put down a dropcloth, light the charcoal grill or housebreak a puppy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

He would in effect housebreak them, he suggested, checking their worst instincts.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2019

The task seems self-punishing, like trying to housebreak a chicken.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

“You’d have better luck trying to housebreak a hyena.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2017

Mack intended to teach her tricks and go in vaudeville and he didn’t even housebreak her.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck