Sample Sentences for
domestic
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(editor-reviewed)

domestic as in:  the domestic market

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    The president gave a speech focused on domestic issues like education and healthcare.
    domestic = relating to a home country
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    The United States is the country with the highest total gross domestic product, though not the highest per person.
    gross domestic product = the total value of goods and services produced by a nation in a year
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    She tracks domestic oil production.
    domestic = relating to a home country
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    They have roughly the intelligence of a domestic cow.  (source)
    domestic = raised by ranchers
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    After the initial attack, the president had immediately invoked the Stanford Act so the military could operate domestically, but for the first few weeks we'd been on the brink of war with China and Iran, and the military had had its hands tied.†  (source)
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    The cash flow makes up a whopping 15 percent of El Salvador's gross domestic product and is Mexico's second largest contributor to the economy, after oil.†  (source)
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    He says our heating bills are larger than the GDP of a small African country.†  (source)
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    Or maybe a domestic terrorist cell trying to build a homemade bomb.  (source)
    domestic = relating to a home country
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    The Red Coast transmitter was ultra-high-powered, but all of its components were domestically produced during the Cultural Revolution.†  (source)
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    In 2005, the annual per capita gross domestic product of the country was a mere four hundred dollars—which ranks it ahead of only the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe among nations for which any data is available.†  (source)
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    They had a permanent unemployed underclass approaching thirty percent, their military was paltry for their size, absorbing less than point zero three percent of their GDP, and their trade imbalance was becoming astronomical.†  (source)
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    Business was excellent when Governor William Wyatt Bibb, with a view to promoting the newly created county's domestic tranquility, dispatched a team of surveyors to locate its exact center and there establish its seat of government.  (source)
    domestic = relating to a local geographic area
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    You know, John, in addition to all the problems this case can cause domestically, I'm also worried about the British.†  (source)
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domestic as in:  domestic happiness

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The shelter helps victims of domestic violence find safe housing and support.
domestic = related to the home or family
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    We share the domestic chores.
    domestic = household (relating to home or family)
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    The health insurance extends benefits to unwed domestic partners regardless of sex.
    domestic = relating to family
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    My great grandmother worked in London as a domestic servant.
    domestic = household (relating to a home or family)
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    England's national census of 1911 showed 1.3 million domestic servants, 1.2 million agricultural workers, and 971,000 coal miners.
    domestic = household (relating to a home or family)
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    No. I have two domestics, and both were out on their night off, which was why I was home.†  (source)
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    I felt a sudden dread; I had feared from the first that this odd, peaceable domesticity with Titch must end.†  (source)
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    Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.†  (source)
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    And so they went, down the row of laughing women, around the diningroom, refilling coffee cups, dishing out goodies as though their only regret was the temporary domestic disaster of losing Calpurnia.  (source)
    domestic = relating to a home or family
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    And Lillian taught us all to cook hamburgers and roasts, to clean toilets with cleansers that smelled sweeter than flowers, and to scrub pots and pans with pre-soaped balls of steel wool instead of ashes and lemon rinds, so we could hire ourselves out as domestics.†  (source)
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    What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?†  (source)
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    While he walked up the drive and Lily Briscoe said yes and no and capped his comments (for she was in love with them all, in love with this world) he weighed Ramsay's case, commiserated him, envied him, as if he had seen him divest himself of all those glories of isolation and austerity which crowned him in youth to cumber himself definitely with fluttering wings and clucking domesticities.†  (source)
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    We were talking about maids and the fact that you're supposed to refer to them as "domestic help" these days.  (source)
    domestic = relating to a home
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    'Here we have the whole establishment of domestics, I suppose,' was the reflection suggested by this compound order.†  (source)
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domestic animal as in:  a domestic animal like a dog

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    The book details the history of domestic animals such as dogs, cats, or cows.
    domestic animals = animals kept as pets or for ranching
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    Each year, millions of domestic animals in the United States are killed after they are dropped off at shelters and not adopted.
    domestic animals = animals kept as pets
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    Suppose those two points we take are the wolf and the domestic dog.  (source)
    domestic = referring to animals kept as pets
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    That's exactly how people have bred domestic animals for more than ten thousand years, Sophie.†  (source)
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    She soon finished her eating, and having a consciousness that Clare was regarding her, began to trace imaginary patterns on the tablecloth with her forefinger with the constraint of a domestic animal that perceives itself to be watched.  (source)
    domestic animal = kept as a pet
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    Animals rights people say we should free domestic animals, but domestic animals cannot survive in the wild.†  (source)
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    Any literalism which could suggest the cosy familiarity of a domestic animal—or worse, a pantomine horse—should be avoided.†  (source)
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    On Saturdays the poor mulattoes, along with all their domestic animals and kitchen utensils, tumultuously abandoned their hovels of cardboard and tin on the edges of the swamps and in jubilant assault took over the rocky beaches of the colonial district.†  (source)
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    There are streets and houses, and there are books, I imagine, and big canals and docks and places for stabling, if not horses, well, then some domestic animal, perhaps with twelve legs, who knows?†  (source)
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    There are six low phoenix notes and six high, six worldly environments, six senses, six virtues, six obligations, six classes of ideograph, six domestic animals, six arts, and six paths of metempsychosis.†  (source)
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    You're a real domestic animal.†  (source)
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    They had villages and cities, vehicles, houses, marketplaces, bounded fields, agricultural implements and domestic animals, and led a life quite as rich and varied as that in most rural areas of the world today.†  (source)
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    "Frightened?" he said, touching her cheek as if she were some domestic animal.†  (source)
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