Sentence examples for attempt to breed from inspiring English sources

Subordinate males are tolerated if they do not attempt to breed.

Or is the Juke's attempt to breed coupe with crossover more than a youthful cry for attention?

He was captured by the Grenadier Guards and brought to England, bought by Lt Col John Julius Angerstein, and spent a peaceful old age after an unsuccessful attempt to breed from him.

This bonus baby was the last grandchild in my family, a last attempt to breed some frivolity and high-spiritedness into our somber Anglo line, and we seem to have succeeded.

Included alongside the forward-thinking work of well-known designers like Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid and Maya Lin is a project by the Dutch-born designer Jan Habraken that represents his attempt to breed the ultimate chair.

Each spring the male of "our" pair of garden blackbirds makes use of it as a favoured songpost, and maybe one year the twosome will attempt to breed within its shelter, building perhaps in the empty niche and tucking themselves away behind the unoccupied plinth.

Another method, known as selective breeding, evaluates genetic involvement by attempting to breed for high and low extremes of a trait for several generations.

Behind all such controversies lay the shadow of Nazi attempts to breed a master race.

Scientists are attempting to breed chickens whose genes have been altered to make them resistant to a common poultry parasite.

In attempts to breed gentler dogs, it is using labs and goldens, and sometimes also producing golden-lab crossbreeds.

Previous attempts to breed cultivated rice with resistance to the fungus produced poor-tasting, low-quality rice.