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animal - use in sentences
Converse of object
- slaughter: Compensation for bovine animals slaughtered for BSE is calculated in England under the TSE Regulations 2006.
- kill: They say that traps are inhumane and don't always kill the animal straight away, so they often bleed to death.
- domesticate: The domesticated animals inject their hooves onto depraved and overgrazed fields.
Preposition: in
- zoo: There are over 400 hundred animals in this zoo set within 32 acres of landscaped gardens.
Adjective modifier
- wild: She hopes that the wild animals will stop the world's media getting too close.
- infected: Many of these recent cases are farmers who became infected through contact with infected animals.
- domestic: Safe means that it must not pose a risk of injury or death to people or domestic animals or of damage to property.
- exotic: I suppose that's what draws people into keeping exotic animals.
- endangered: Extinct and endangered Find out about some of our extinct and endangered animals.
Modifies a noun
- welfare: Rather than go quietly I would like to do something to improve animal welfare on upland organic farms.
- feed: What there is not enough of is animal feed - cereals to drive the predicted increase in meat consumption.
- experimentation: Animal experimentation did no better in the field of surgery.
- experiment: Animal experiments tell us about animals, not about people.
- husbandry: At least the fallout from a nuclear attack on Catterick would give its remaining inhabitants something to talk about instead of animal husbandry.
- testing: Animal testing had given it a clean, side-effect free bill of health.
Noun used with modifier
- farm: The welfare of the farm animals is satisfactory under this system.
- companion: Write a poem about keeping a companion animal, with a happy ending.
- grazing: Savannah grasslands - Hot, dry grassy plains that often support large numbers of grazing herd animals.
- laboratory: Now, they're targeting the use of laboratory animals.
- zoo: A young girl takes a trip through a metaphorical zoo gathering animals symbolic of her negative thoughts.
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