Sentence examples for housebroken from inspiring English sources
"housebroken" is a correct word and can be used in written English
It is used to describe an animal that has been trained to behave appropriately when inside a house, usually meaning that it does not urinate or defecate in the house. For example, "The new puppy is already housebroken, so it only makes messes outside."
adjective
Of animals: trained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
How about "Many of our passengers are housebroken"?
These tiny tchotchkes tucked inside nailed-up hosiery are the preamble to the main course — toys that require midnight assembly, itty-bitty electronics that come in inexplicably large boxes, furry things that aren't housebroken.
There was the generous father who made a fortune as a partner in Filene's, and went on to become president of the Boston Public Library, but who was nevertheless viewed as one of the city's "housebroken, token aliens".
In the confines of the whorehouse, he seemed larger and more ungainly than usual, as though he were not fully housebroken and had to be prevented from slipping on things and knocking over the equipment.
The writer describes an anecdote about a housebroken dog refusing to relieve itself on New York's concrete sidewalks.
They thought that I would love them, listen to them, learn to fuck them, and that they in turn would plump the pillows, go to the movies I wanted to see, make lemonade according to the long-boiling recipe I preferred, peel the tomatoes as I insisted, and, despite all this deference to me, feel that I was the one being housebroken.
A fully housebroken anti-Communist.
Like a pet dog, a baby needs to be fed, housebroken, and taught to sleep through the night without howling.
She started to answer that she did, provided that they were properly housebroken.
After my mother's celebrated – if over-reported – 1958 murder, I went to live with my dad and we had a beagle who was un-housebroken.
In the studio, there was no place to confine Kaya before she was housebroken, so Mr. Marotta constructed a makeshift wire pen in one corner.
