Sentence examples for domesticated a from inspiring English sources

Mr. Brown had already domesticated a loft near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and as the son of an architect was pretty sanguine about construction.

Over time, however, as we settled into houses and domesticated a handful of favored animals, the cockroach became an unwelcome guest.

"We domesticated a plant from the wild, and somehow it de-domesticated itself — which I think is pretty exciting," Dr. Caicedo said.

Although people have since domesticated a vast array of the world's animals and plants, in one area at least we have never really shaken off our hunter-gatherer roots.

American Indians domesticated a variety of plants and animals, including maize (you call it corn), beans, squash, potatoes and other tubers, and turkeys, as well as a variety of semidomesticated species of nut- and seed-bearing plants.

These include the horse that lived 43,000 years ago, before horses were domesticated; a Przewalski's horse, a species thought to represent the last living wild horse population; five domestic horse breeds (Arabian, Icelandic, Norwegian fjord, Standardbred and Thoroughbred); and Willy the donkey.

After three or four storms in as many afternoons, they seem almost domesticated — an aunt or uncle stopping in for a surly tea but leaving the air surprisingly refreshed in the aftermath.

Researchers speculate that the difference can be explained by evolutionary history: dogs were domesticated an estimated 15,000 years ago, compared to just 9,500 years for cats.

We see, in the Katrine story, a wolf domesticated into a dog; in the Tara story, a log, hollowed out by disease, made into a boat.

Pigs were first domesticated in a place called Cayonu a few miles away.

Muscovy ducks, a South American species, were domesticated roughly a thousand years later in Colombia.