How to Use husbandry in a Sentence

husbandry

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  • The Black Death of the mid-1300s resulted in a shift from farming to husbandry.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 30 June 2020
  • But much of the care, such as taking blood samples, can be done in situ with the help of the husbandry staff.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • At their best, Doyle’s small triumphs of restraint and husbandry add up to something large.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The very cattle shrank with the return of primitive methods of husbandry.
    — Helen Andrews, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
  • And across the world, depending on the type of husbandry practised, farming is eroding soil at a rate between ten times and more than 100 times faster than new soil forms.
    — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The catteries at the temples of Bastet are our first efforts at raising cats in a manner of animal husbandry.
    — Martin Mejia, National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2016
  • First and foremost, everything on the dinner plate is sourced from the south, native to the area, highlighting heirloom husbandry and on-site pickling.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Giuliani put me in touch with Tony Silva, a parrot breeder based in Homestead, Florida, who has written many books on birds and bird husbandry, and gives lectures all around the world.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
  • People feared the impact of the automobile on horse husbandry, carriage makers, and blacksmiths.
    — Justin Brady, Quartz, 21 Nov. 2019
  • In that time, pig husbandry had produced a docile and resilient animal, one bred to survive a range of climatic conditions and to reproduce—a lot.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the animal care and husbandry will be on public view, and the design of the exhibit space has been dictated by close observation of lion behavior through the years.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Now Ku’ui has introduced me to another: the most advanced fish husbandry techniques in the Pacific at the time of Captain Cook’s arrival, many of which are practiced today in much the same way throughout the islands.
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Such careful insect husbandry has given her a deep appreciation for an insect most people see as a pest.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • But despite their shared interest in zoology and animal husbandry, the brothers’ paths diverged greatly as the Nazis rose to power.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The focus of 4-H these days is more on community service and visual arts but still includes animal husbandry centered on rabbits and chickens.
    — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 28 July 2017
  • And that ranges not just from husbandry and education, but to administration and maintenance.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Where Tilikum once got regular rubdowns and close contact during cleanings and other husbandry, now he’s hosed down instead of hand-massaged, and his teeth are cleaned with an extension pole.
    — Tim Zimmermann, Outside Online, 30 July 2010
  • As backyard bird husbandry has spread throughout urban areas where poultry was previously confined to the dinner plate, many owners have come to see the animals as less food source than adored pet.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 5 June 2017
  • That care can mean anything from wildlife conservation to land rehabilitation, and even making sure practices like hunting and husbandry don't come at the expense of our ethics.
    — Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Some 1,600 years later, researchers performed a DNA analysis of the limb, peeking into the past and shedding light on an ancient civilization’s sheep husbandry practices.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • Our hosts, Barry and Anita Hansen, grow acres of them, along with a supermarket aisle's worth of vegetables and eight-foot-tall sunflowers, the plot surrounded by the requisite Montana husbandry mix of pigs, chickens, and sheep.
    — Boris Fishman, Smithsonian, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Our hosts, Barry and Anita Hansen, grow acres of them, along with a supermarket aisle's worth of vegetables and eight-foot-tall sunflowers, the plot surrounded by the requisite Montana husbandry mix of pigs, chickens, and sheep.
    — Boris Fishman, Smithsonian, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Another version of the dairy husbandry department — which is now the food science department — was established even earlier, in 1908.
    — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2019
  • Perry Hampton, the aquarium’s vice president of animal husbandry, said in a statement.
    — Jeremiah Dobruck, Orange County Register, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Ravinder Kumar, the local government secretary for animal and sheep husbandry in Ladakh, said his office this year supplied about half a million kilograms of livestock feed to the Changthang region, home to the Changpas.
    — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The park’s animal husbandry and veterinary teams provided pre-natal care and regular ultrasounds for the expectant mother, and Kaboodle and her new calf remain under the 24-hour care of the teams.
    — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 June 2017
  • Burgeoning shepherds can take classes on breeding, raising, herding and husbandry.
    — Lindsay Cohn, USA TODAY, 15 June 2018
  • The agriscience department has a large greenhouse, labs, research and animal husbandry facilities, and outdoor spaces for horses, cows, and chickens.
    — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 4 May 2017
  • In this library, instead of tomes divided into fiction and nonfiction, books are grouped by husbandry, conservation and animal species.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2017
  • From the article: Google now appears to be taking a carpet-bombing, or perhaps carpet-fertilizing, approach to its husbandry of the remaining Indian short-video startups.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 21 June 2022

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