wean - use in sentences

Object

  • piglet: Abstract When weaned early, piglets commonly take some time to accept solid food, resulting in a growth check and reduced welfare.
  • pup: Weaned gray seal pups were tracked using coded data transmitters in December 1997.
  • calf: List the possible problems which may arise in weaning calves.
  • puppy: This scenario may have a significant effect on the recently weaned young puppy that is placed in a new environment.
  • pig: In weaned pigs, respiratory disease is the predominant problem.
  • lamb: An example is when lambs not yet weaned are sent for slaughter.

Preposition: on

  • diet: Your cubs must be bottle fed around the clock for two weeks, then weaned on a diet of high quality meat.

Preposition: at

  • month: Site B will be for the young boar ( from weaning at 4-6 months to slaughter at 12-15 months ).

Preposition: onto

  • food: As they are weaned onto food suitable to small salmon, the fry become free swimming rather than bottom feeders.

Modifying Another Word

  • gradually: Research has shown that gradually weaned foals exhibit less stress than abruptly weaned foals.
  • slowly: Josie is weaning slowly, down to a feed every few days now.
  • newly: There's something for every child, from newly weaned to really quite grown up.
  • fully: A kitten can be fully weaned at about 8 weeks old.
  • away: We have been weaned away from our natural leaders.
  • completely: Now completely weaned off their mother's milk, it will be the food she supplies that the cubs are reliant upon.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • off: Slowly, like a heroin addict weaned off by methadone, I had the inside of my head adjusted.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • off: She said this would stop me from having to be weaned off the steroids.

Used with why or when

  • when: The young leave the nest after weaning when they are at their most vulnerable to predators such as birds of prey and desert foxes.

Preposition: from

  • ventilation: Nevertheless with skilled supervision of weaning from ventilation these problems should be overcome.
  • milk: Was this, by any chance, about the same time he was weaned from breast milk to cow's milk-based formula?

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