"breed" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- While a common variety of pepper seeds, for example, might sell for $20 a pound wholesale, Mr. Ogden may pay more than 10 times as much for his highly bred varieties.
- She was highly bred, in the best sense of the word.
- If such a thing can be, which I doubt, you would have inherited some of the characteristics of the ape, but you have not--you are pure man, and, I should say, the offspring of highly bred and intelligent parents.
- They are highly bred, highly trained and highly expensive.
- From the white-gold hair, to the narrow, clawlike feet, she was the very epitome of highly bred elvenkind.
- He was astride his mare, a highly bred and finely mettled bay, and he reined her down to a walk.
- During this time the agricultural programs of the land grant universities were promoting highly bred domestic cattle and saw these as inferior "scrub" animals.
- Highly Bred and Sweetly Tempered (2004)
- The Ram-kins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.
- These herds serve as gene banks, due to their reported resistance to cattle diseases which affect more highly bred cattle types.
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