How to Use inbred in a Sentence

inbred

adjective
  • They have an inbred love of freedom.
  • Letting the pups get too inbred would harm the group’s health.
    — Big Think, 8 May 2026
  • So new eggs will have to be made from other rhinos — otherwise the northern whites will be too inbred to thrive.
    — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
  • But inbred stereotypes of gender roles can take a long time to overcome; time that most corporations don’t have.
    — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • There’s a generally inbred vibe, and that bloody reek of inheritance.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Now, the inhabitants are a credulous, inbred bunch, prone to mottled skin, patches of white hair and walking in their sleep.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Even if the goal is reached, Robinson said there will still be an inbred population, which could lead to a larger mortality rate.
    — Andrew Nicla, azcentral, 23 June 2019
  • The authors also found evidence that koalas in the north have more genetic diversity than those in the south, which are largely inbred.
    — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 2 July 2018
  • What part did his inbred allegiance—to family, to country, to being a member of a team—play in his decision to drive the getaway car?
    — Nancy Rommelmann, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Combined with male deaths caused by fishing activities near the shore, there might not be enough males to keep the species from becoming inbred, Schofield says.
    — Tara Santora, Scientific American, 2 June 2020
  • When the microbes were present, the hybrids grew better than an inbred variety, as expected, with roots weighing 20% more.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 29 July 2021
  • Because captive birds tend to be slightly inbred, certain versions of a gene become predominant and can serve as a kind of fingerprint for captivity.
    — National Geographic, 21 May 2018
  • Among those instincts could be warm feelings about strongmen and an inbred hunch that allies are actually taking advantage of America.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 14 June 2018
  • That bleak stretch remains a testament to the stubborn nature of Downeasters and their inbred ability to endure harsh conditions without complaint.
    — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
  • Their numbers surpassed 100 only recently, and the population is highly inbred.
    — Cally Carswell, Science | AAAS, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Over just a few generations, the blue agave gene pool has become dangerously inbred, Cuellar warns, and such a monoculture is easy prey for a disease that could devastate the industry.
    — Max Falkowitz, GQ, 3 May 2018
  • With the siblings and in-laws and various inbred offsprings dismissed, these moors are lonelier than ever, making the action both easier to follow than in the original novel and easier to buy.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The wild night of costumes, drinking and partying turns into a bloodbath when an inbred family of hillbilly cannibals target several college students for dinner.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • This Joan is driven to lead men into battle not by the voices of saints nor a particular fealty to the French monarchy, but by a personal desire for vengeance and an inbred itch for violence.
    — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Industrial farming facilities, wherein thousands of inbred animals routinely sit in their own feces while waiting to die, can also function as factory-sized petri dishes.
    — Neil Vora, Time, 22 May 2026
  • Red wolves are already highly inbred and their genetic diversity is on par with a population raised from just five animals (though the actual founding population was 14 animals).
    — Robbie George, National Geographic, 29 June 2018
  • In Southern California, for example, freeways have divided the region’s mountain lions into small, inbred populations.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Lebowitz said the miniature pigs, created for BioTransplant by a local supplier of animals for medical research, were highly inbred and this could be the reason their viruses could not be transmitted to human cells at least in the laboratory.
    — Reuters, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2000
  • Thanks to conservation efforts, the population has expanded nearly threefold since the 1990s, but the population is highly inbred, with a low level of genetic diversity.
    — National Geographic, 5 May 2020
  • Maxillofacial surgeons scored the jaw deformations of inbred Hapsburgs, and a test of 6,300 participants in eighty-five countries found that women are likelier than men to accurately read feline facial expressions.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020

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