How to Use domestication in a Sentence

domestication

noun
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  • And the seeds were unusually large for plants of the kind, a sign of domestication.
    — Sarah Laskow, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2022
  • In this age of modern domestication, why are the largest dog breeds up to 40 times bigger than the smallest?
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Dogs are the theme this week with a talk about how humans influenced the domestication of wolves.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The process of dog domestication, in which a now extinct group of wolves was transformed into dogs, has always been a puzzle.
    — Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
  • The ability of dogs to complete this task could be a product of domestication.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 30 July 2021
  • Evidence of early pig and sheep domestication has been found in the region, as well.
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 7 June 2021
  • But it’s been hard to pin down exactly how and when that domestication occurred.
    — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 14 Oct. 2022
  • After that domestication event, some things do seem to have stayed constant.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • So northeast Africa is a good guess for where its domestication occurred.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, the cats found there were likely situated early in the process of domestication, the authors say.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Davin also hopes that future research will shed further light on the domestication of plants.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The team behind the study plans to test more genomes to help determine an ancient wolf ancestor closer to dogs and to get a more detailed look at where domestication took place.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 30 June 2022
  • Strong domestication has deprived them of many of their instincts.
    — Stella Marie Hombach, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2022
  • That’s the point in Lamb — that even in this outpost of domestication and agriculture and mankind’s dominance over the land and the elements, nature is not so easily claimed.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The transition from competitors to pets wasn’t always a smooth one, though, as humans often ate these pets in the early days of domestication.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • That suggests that since domestication set them apart, wolves haven’t contributed much DNA to dog bloodlines.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2020
  • This relationship then gave rise to the gradual domestication of the cat.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Might the domestication of horses that took place there 5,000-odd years ago have been brought about by episodic drought that pushed pastoralists to give up on herding less resilient herbivores?
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • But nearly everything else about the domestication of dogs is a mystery, including when, where and with what group of humans wolves began to evolve into dogs.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2022
  • The result was a domestication of the unruly common language that was American music, and homegrown misfits like Converse were left to rot in the wilderness.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Despite more than a century of study, scientists have struggled to understand what triggered the domestication process in the first place.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2021
  • Even in this outpost of domestication and agriculture and mankind’s dominance over the land and the elements, nature is not so easily claimed.
    — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • This began with the cultivation of wild plants and the domestication of various animals for dairy products and meat.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Such a domestication of desire explains why we are so often dissociated from our true selves—staring out at the sea, rather than drowning in it.
    — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Over the course of their domestication, the modern bananas available in supermarkets lost their seeds and became fleshier and sweeter.
    — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Their way of life was made possible by the domestication of riding and pack animals—horses, camels, yaks and reindeer—and the invention of chariots.
    — Adam Kuper, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The flowers have been domesticated for around 5,000 years, and the steps the plant took toward domestication are well-documented.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2020
  • Initial domestication and the rapid spread of the apple as a fruit crop is owed to its ease of cultivation, wide cultural adaptability, and long shelf life of harvested fruit.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The team reconstructed the animals’ evolutionary tree and used computer models to pinpoint the domestication event, when herders in Kenya and the Horn of Africa tamed wild asses.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
  • While the emoji was a long time coming, the history of the arepa stretches back millennia, part of the infinitely branching family tree of dishes, like pupusas and tamales, that emerged from the domestication of corn.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 July 2022

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