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domesticate - use in sentences
Object
- animal: Zoo animals differ from domesticated animals in human care in several respects.
- livestock: The disease in domesticated livestock took a very mild course with no mortalities being recorded.
- elephant: The domesticated elephants are still being used to clear forests illegally.
- mammal: In domesticated mammals the retina is the reflective area at the back of the eye which responds to light.
- sheep: Before they were domesticated, moreover, sheep had no wool suitable for textile purposes.
- cattle: From Western Europe were introduced domesticated cattle, sheep, pigs, wheat and barley.
Subject
- Egyptian: This species was domesticated by the ancient Egyptians and has spread all over the world in many different domestic strains.
Noun phrase with adjective complement
- such: These viruses can cause the common cold and often infect domesticated animals such as cats, chickens and pigs.
Modifying Another Word
- thoroughly: But today, the patchwork of land around has been thoroughly domesticated by its sale for ranch-style housing.
- normally: Wild animals are those that are not normally domesticated in Great Britain.
- fully: These gardens are tended patches of vegetation of intermediate status between fully wild and fully domesticated.
- first: Cats were first domesticated 8,000 years ago by people in the Far East who considered them to be good luck.
- very: He is also very domesticated with great skill in cooking and textiles!
- not: I am not domesticated, as I told him.
Present participle complement
- include: As well as the Shires we have a fantastic selection of British animals & birdlife both wild & domesticated including many rare breeds.
Preposition: in
- part: World: Africa, including the Nile Valley, and domesticated in other parts of the world.
Preposition: from
- wolf: Richard Byrne, of St Andrew's University, said the study could overturn accepted theories about how dogs became domesticated from the wolf.
- guanaco: They are domesticated from the guanaco, a wild camelid living primarily in Patagonia.
Preposition: for
- purpose: All but beaver and squirrel have been domesticated for this purpose.
Preposition: by
- Egyptian: This species was domesticated by the ancient Egyptians and has spread all over the world in many different domestic strains.
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