How to Use domestication in a Sentence

domestication

noun
  • So how do scientists look for signs of domestication and what do those signs mean?
    — Hannah Chinn, NPR, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
  • After that domestication event, some things do seem to have stayed constant.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Dogs are the theme this week with a talk about how humans influenced the domestication of wolves.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • And the seeds were unusually large for plants of the kind, a sign of domestication.
    — Sarah Laskow, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2022
  • That is, in a word, domestication.
    — Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
  • But it’s been hard to pin down exactly how and when that domestication occurred.
    — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Strong domestication has deprived them of many of their instincts.
    — Stella Marie Hombach, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2022
  • So northeast Africa is a good guess for where its domestication occurred.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Evidence of early pig and sheep domestication has been found in the region, as well.
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 7 June 2021
  • Step inside for a whistlestop tour of some of the weirder facts about animal domestication.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The ability of dogs to complete this task could be a product of domestication.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 30 July 2021
  • Davin also hopes that future research will shed further light on the domestication of plants.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Researchers have thought the wide-eyed look evolved due to humans’ close bond with dogs and their history of domestication.
    — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Just like the aging of a fine wine, the domestication of grapevines throughout Italy was a pretty slow process.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
  • In this age of modern domestication, why are the largest dog breeds up to 40 times bigger than the smallest?
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
  • In this age of modern domestication, why are the largest dog breeds up to 40 times bigger than the smallest?
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In other parts of the world, thousands of years had passed between the onset of crop domestication and the emergence of states.
    — Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The process of dog domestication, in which a now extinct group of wolves was transformed into dogs, has always been a puzzle.
    — Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Before domestication, cats had to hunt for their own food, much like their larger relatives, such as tigers and lions.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Thousands of years of domestication couldn’t prepare dogs for this abrupt transition.
    — Brian Hare, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2024
  • How does the process of domestication differ between animals and plants?
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Scientists have long wondered when the domestication of dogs first started.
    — NPR, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Many dog domestication questions still remain and the team is still researching where and how canids spread across Europe.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This relationship then gave rise to the gradual domestication of the cat.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • This makes the domestication less of a single event and more of a gradual and regionally varied process.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In other words, the cats found there were likely situated early in the process of domestication, the authors say.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The event marked a domestication of these once-terrifying creatures.
    — Brenda Wineapple, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • One piece of the puzzle would be seeing if domestication syndrome was observable in real time with wild animals.
    — Marina Wang, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The transition from competitors to pets wasn’t always a smooth one, though, as humans often ate these pets in the early days of domestication.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023

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