housebroken

Example Sentences

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By that, I mean nice, smart, accomplished, shares some interests, is housebroken in most of the right ways?

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2019

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2018

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

The sisters don’t agree on much but they both detest Vicky, a smelly beast too stupid to be housebroken and forever fouling the house and bumping into things she shouldn’t.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2014

Here I’d left a sweet, well-mannered, housebroken cat behind and they were dragging along two disgusting, smelly, flea-covered monkeys.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz