Sample Sentences for
wean
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  • I grew concerned and weaned myself to no more than one drink a day and never two days in a row.
  • I was weaned on country music and have loved it ever since.
  • The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.  (source)
    wean = help adapt to the gradual removal of
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  • Even Aegon did no conquering until after he was weaned.†  (source)
  • Maybe the goal isn't to kill all of us, just wean us down to a manageable number.†  (source)
  • She's weaning them from her.  (source)
    weaning = adapting to the removal of breastmilk from diet
  • She'll farrow at least ten pigs, spring and fall— if you breed her fresh again just three days after she weans.†  (source)
  • The captive raised her face; it was as soft and mild As sculptured marble saint; or slumbering unweaned child; It was so soft and mild, it was so sweet and fair, Pain could not trace a line, or grief a shadow there!†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unweaned means not and reverses the meaning of weaned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • And she was wean'd,  (source)
    wean'd = adapted to not drinking breastmilk
  • Barely weaned before you clamor for the whiskey bottle, the pint of stout.†  (source)
  • They are trying to slowly wean me off the stuff.†  (source)
  • Weaning is the hardest time on a ranch for animals and ranchers alike.†  (source)
  • If the rulers of democratic nations were either to neglect to correct this fatal tendency, or to encourage it from a notion that it weans men from political passions and thus wards off revolutions, they might eventually produce the evil they seek to avoid, and a time might come when the inordinate passions of a few men, aided by the unintelligent selfishness or the pusillanimity of the greater number, would ultimately compel society to pass through strange vicissitudes.†  (source)
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