Sample Sentences forwean (editor-reviewed)
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Worldwide, most babies are weaned much later, but in the US, fewer than 20% of babies are still nursing when they are six months old.weaned = adapt to the removal of breastmilk
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She weaned her baby when he was three months old and started him on cow's milk.weaned = adapted to the removal of breastmilk
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The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle.
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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.
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I was weaned on country music and have loved it ever since.
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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)
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Maybe the goal isn't to kill all of us, just wean us down to a manageable number.† (source)
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She's weaning them from her. (source)weaning = adapting to the removal of breastmilk from diet
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She'll farrow at least ten pigs, spring and fall— if you breed her fresh again just three days after she weans.† (source)
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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.
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And she was wean'd, (source)wean'd = adapted to not drinking breastmilk
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Barely weaned before you clamor for the whiskey bottle, the pint of stout.† (source)
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They are trying to slowly wean me off the stuff.† (source)
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Weaning is the hardest time on a ranch for animals and ranchers alike.† (source)
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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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