Example sentences for: breed

How can you use “breed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some commentators adopt a stance of racial pessimism because they fear that making concessions to the optimists will breed complacency and inhibit the efforts needed for still further progress.

  • But Pecksniffians are a different breed.

  • As Christopher Hitchens pointed out simply and clearly in his great (and much-hated, and banned) book (and film, too, though I haven't seen it) on Mother Theresa, it's one thing to say you have this long-standing religious belief and tradition and you want to stick to it out of devotion to your faith, but when you are not only a) blindly encouraging poverty-stricken masses to breed like rabbits, but also b) actively stopping, I mean, going out of your way to directly oppose, the efforts of those courageous souls who are trying to make sure those people can get a handful or two of grain and maybe a few ounces of clean water to wash the parasites out of their underwear every day.

  • This can breed insularity; some villagers have never been as far as Funchal and the thought of making the long trip to the mainland is even more remote.

  • This is a "new breed of Jaguar."


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