housebroken

Example Sentences

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One housebroken joey would watch television in their living room.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2021

I’m domesticated, housebroken, and I cook a mean minestrone.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2019

Brazelton told the Times that the idea that a child should be housebroken like a puppy was “very logical – for a puppy.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2018

Are parents just tame animals, housebroken and desexed?

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2017

Anyone who’s ever had a cat that’s not housebroken can imagine the smells, other than pepper and thyme, that permeate this house.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank