Sentence examples for bred i from inspiring English sources

I didn't want to drink tea with my dinky finger sticking out to show I was well bred (I wasn't).

As a Cockney born and bred I can tell you that's a load of orchestras (orchestra stalls – balls, to you mate).

It wasn't a hard decision: "As a New Yorker born and bred, I have a driver's licence, but I am not a good driver".

I was 'young' and 'idealistic' and 'highly bred'; I knew nothing of what went on 'behind the scenes' when the mighty Dulles" — John Foster Dulles was a partner — "was closeted with the directors of the Foundation and what secret deals were pulled..

I was 'young' and 'idealistic' and 'highly bred'; I knew nothing of what went on 'behind the scenes' when the mighty Dulles" — John Foster Dulles was a partner — "was closeted with the directors of the Foundation and what secret deals were pulled...

"when I first kept pigeons and watched the several kinds, knowing well how true they bred, I felt truly as much difficulty in believing that they could ever have descended from a common parent, as any naturalist could in coming to a similar conclusion in regard to the many species of finches, or other large groups of birds, in nature".

Struggling through a fog of intense fatigue and the emotional susceptibility it breeds, I suffered, and as a direct result my husband and baby did too.

Joining the scores of 30-something couples who seemingly move to Brooklyn to breed, I discovered a whole new dimension of Park Slope.

In this species, selection was found to act only on the males' opportunity to breed (i.e. whether they were able to establish a territory), while females mated non-discriminatorily with the advertising males.

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Here are their comments: "My father bred cattle"; "I grew up on a dairy farm".