How to Use husbandry in a Sentence

husbandry

noun
  • Birch’s husbandry team is building a naturescape for the frogs.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But much of the care, such as taking blood samples, can be done in situ with the help of the husbandry staff.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • At their best, Doyle’s small triumphs of restraint and husbandry add up to something large.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The very cattle shrank with the return of primitive methods of husbandry.
    — Helen Andrews, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Those most at risk of exposure are people directly involved with the daily care and husbandry of the birds.
    — Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Such careful insect husbandry has given her a deep appreciation for an insect most people see as a pest.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The Black Death of the mid-1300s resulted in a shift from farming to husbandry.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 30 June 2020
  • The catteries at the temples of Bastet are our first efforts at raising cats in a manner of animal husbandry.
    — Martin Mejia, National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2016
  • People feared the impact of the automobile on horse husbandry, carriage makers, and blacksmiths.
    — Justin Brady, Quartz, 21 Nov. 2019
  • First and foremost, everything on the dinner plate is sourced from the south, native to the area, highlighting heirloom husbandry and on-site pickling.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Burgeoning shepherds can take classes on breeding, raising, herding and husbandry.
    — Lindsay Cohn, USA TODAY, 15 June 2018
  • And that ranges not just from husbandry and education, but to administration and maintenance.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • In that time, pig husbandry had produced a docile and resilient animal, one bred to survive a range of climatic conditions and to reproduce—a lot.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2023
  • And across the world, depending on the type of husbandry practised, farming is eroding soil at a rate between ten times and more than 100 times faster than new soil forms.
    — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Perry Hampton, the aquarium’s vice president of animal husbandry, said in a statement.
    — Jeremiah Dobruck, Orange County Register, 28 Apr. 2017
  • That care can mean anything from wildlife conservation to land rehabilitation, and even making sure practices like hunting and husbandry don't come at the expense of our ethics.
    — Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Some of the animal care and husbandry will be on public view, and the design of the exhibit space has been dictated by close observation of lion behavior through the years.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • As backyard bird husbandry has spread throughout urban areas where poultry was previously confined to the dinner plate, many owners have come to see the animals as less food source than adored pet.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 5 June 2017
  • In this library, instead of tomes divided into fiction and nonfiction, books are grouped by husbandry, conservation and animal species.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2017
  • The focus of 4-H these days is more on community service and visual arts but still includes animal husbandry centered on rabbits and chickens.
    — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 28 July 2017
  • Climate change is wreaking havoc on traditional Sami reindeer husbandry.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Where Tilikum once got regular rubdowns and close contact during cleanings and other husbandry, now he’s hosed down instead of hand-massaged, and his teeth are cleaned with an extension pole.
    — Tim Zimmermann, Outside Online, 30 July 2010
  • The agriscience department has a large greenhouse, labs, research and animal husbandry facilities, and outdoor spaces for horses, cows, and chickens.
    — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 4 May 2017
  • Mysteriously, horsepox seems to have disappeared from the world—perhaps because modern husbandry practices have prevented it from spreading.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In Bulgaria, village music was typically sung by peasants while tending to agriculture and husbandry; at weddings; and to express national pride.
    — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Another version of the dairy husbandry department — which is now the food science department — was established even earlier, in 1908.
    — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2019
  • Giuliani put me in touch with Tony Silva, a parrot breeder based in Homestead, Florida, who has written many books on birds and bird husbandry, and gives lectures all around the world.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Over the decades, staff have worked with colleagues in China to gain insights on panda husbandry, nutrition, behavior, genetics, veterinary medicine and reproduction.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The Reichardt family has devoted the last 30 years to perfecting a line of ducks famed for succulent pink meat and well suited to the slower, less stressful husbandry of a small Petaluma farm.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2024
  • After a crash course in grasshopper husbandry, an initial group of about a dozen zookeepers were given a kit that included between 30 and 50 eggs, a heat-emitting incandescent bulb, and a glass enclosure.
    — Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024

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