Wean

//wiːn//

"Wean" in a Sentence (24 examples)

He tried to wean his son from his bad habit.

When do giraffe calves wean?

Her mother tried to wean him.

Ziri wanted to wean the lambs from the ewe.

Ziri wanted to know how to wean lambs from ewes.

Ziri wanted to know how to wean the lambs from the ewe.

When does a lamb wean itself?

Ziri left the lambs in the flock to wean themselves.

How long does it take to wean a lamb?

"How do you wean lambs?" "This is something I've never done before."

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The cow has weaned her calf.

Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

His generation was weaned on 1980's music.

The kittens are finally weaning.

He managed to wean himself off heroin.

With Marvin getting older ... and walking now ... I thought it was time to start weaning him off of his bottle.

The troubles of age were intended […] to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.

Dalai Lama: "Then, I suggested, “Drink much less vodka.” Instead of that, they traditionally also drink horse milk—" Oliver: "Wait, hold on, you tried to wean them off vodka by giving them horse milk?" Dalai Lama: "Oh yes, and they follow."

She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.

For they are friends that help to weane my ſtate, Till men and kingdomes help to ſtrengthen it: […]

I, being but a yearling wean.

And there were darker tales in the countryside, of weans stolen, of lassies misguided, of innocent beasts cruelly tortured, and in one and all there came in the name of the wife of the Skerburnfoot.

‘While I was his ward, he treated me no worse as a wean about the place than one of his own boys.’

Pigs, cows and sheep and wee ducks, that was what he bought and it was just for weans and wee lasses. I said it to my maw. Oh it is not weans it is children. Oh Kieron, it is children and girls, do not say weans and lasses.

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