Sentence examples for lost breed from inspiring English sources

He was a writer and an ad man and a magnificent baritone (he could write you a jingle and record it on the same day) – a lost breed of lounge pianist who skipped dizzyingly from jazz standards to Flanders and Swann to Lord Buckley and back again – and I can genuinely say that I've never met anyone else so universally beloved, nor do I expect to again.

Those of us on the left, socialists like me, who relish a good debate, are doomed along with that lost breed.

It will not be long, given the nature of the sport, before coaches start to develop strategies that encourage a move back towards the net, but for the time being the serve-volleyers are almost a lost breed, both in the men's and women's games.

Then, leveraging the rising interest in regional food, he engaged hundreds of chefs, farmers and curious eaters to grow and cook some of the lost breeds and varieties.

But losing breeds discontent, and the winless Jaguars may need a financial boost if they are to turn around their fortunes on the field.

In addition, identification of the loci that were selected for, or against, during the process by which this trait was lost in breeds like the WL will give us an insight into the processes of domestication of chicken and how this selection has evolved with artificial incubation.

We also found indigenous breeds of cattle more vulnerable to predation than the imported high-yielding breeds based on herding practices and the significant quantity of indigenous breed lost to predation as compared to imported ones.

The number of indigenous breeds lost was significantly higher than the imported breeds (U (1) = 78.08, p < 0.005).

During domestication, incubation behaviour has been lost in some breeds of chicken, notably the White Leghorn (WL) breed [ 5], while many breeds of poultry including Red Jungle fowl [ 7] have retained this behaviour with hens incubating their own eggs.

For Bonn, the city's receipt of more than $2.2 billion from the federal government from 1994 to 2004 to ease the transition of losing Parliament, bred no small amount of resentment around the country.

Even when herds were not dispersed or destroyed, a breed could be lost through indiscriminate breeding arising from a need for numbers.