(Of an animal) Having only ancestors of the same breed.
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Examples for "thoroughbred "
Examples for "thoroughbred "
1 Suffolk Downs, New England's last thoroughbred racing track, will close this year.
2 Longhorn versus thoroughbred , and Daddy indulges and encourages him in the plan.
3 But in the graver crises of life she proved herself a thoroughbred .
4 Like Lad, she was thoroughbred in soul as well as in body.
5 I have only one; but that one is altogether a thoroughbred Lion.
1 They were bigger than the purebred Kent lambs, and seemed hardy enough.
2 Though Nathan was safe as a branded, purebred stag, she was not.
3 They are the largest purebred herd of wild buffalo in the United States.
4 On the farming front he was a breeder of purebred Charolais.
5 From the Nama to the Cape Malay to the purebred Boer.
1 He has been living lately with ten pedigreed Labrador retrievers-motherand nine.
2 The house had a pedigreed bull pup that is kept in the barn.
3 They took care of a group of six pedigreed rams while they grazed.
4 The first surprise is that not all debaters are pedigreed preppies.
5 The onliest pedigreed 'Royal Analostan' in the 'ole sheow, ye kneow.
1 It was famous all around for its splendid, pure - bred beef cattle herd.
2 Among those taken were four of the farm's 30 pure - bred Texels.
3 He is also, we believe, the only pure - bred Spanish gypsy residing in Manhattan.
4 After several generations of regulated breeding, a pure - bred race of hermaphrodites was formed.
5 I'm a sharp on pure - bred beef cattle, pure - bred swine, and irrigation.
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