Citations:unbreeding

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English citations of unbreeding

Adjective: "not reproducing"[edit]

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  • 1974 — Richard M. Trainor, letter to the editor, The Mercury (Renfrew, Ontario), 11 December 1974:
    He went on to explain that this type of kill was performed on these occasions by a couple of "young unbreeding wolves."
  • 2002 — Pushkar Chandavarkar, "Barren Lives", in Selected Stories from Gujarat (trans. Sarla Jagmohan), Jaico Publishing House (2002), →ISBN, page 20:
    "You are so much worried about your market dealings, and I am in hell of a mess. All because of your unbreeding buffalo!"
  • 2010 — Camille Alexa, "For They Are As Beasts", in The Blackness Within: Stories of the Pagan God Moccus (ed. Gill Ainsworth), Apex Publications (2010), →ISBN, page 158:
    I lurched to my feet and lunged for the only door — my small cottage no larger than proscribed by Moccusian tenets for single, unbreeding women []