How to Use wean in a Sentence

wean

verb
  • The calves are weaned at an early age.
  • Stick to your plan and wean him off of your resources.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Eight weeks is same time that they are weaned from their mothers.
    — Alex Kingsbury, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018
  • Twenty-nine were weaned pups and the other was an adult male.
    — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • That’s not weaned herself off her couture habit.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Mitchem told me that cannabis has even helped her start weaning off of Zoloft.
    — Sarah Levy, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • Instead, central banks haven’t been able to wean their economies off them.
    — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 May 2019
  • They were weaned at eight weeks and have been living the lives of healthy young dire wolves since then.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The problem can start as soon as babies are weaned and able to eat solid foods.
    — Jane E. Brody, miamiherald, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Then, over two to 12 weeks, the infant is weaned off morphine.
    — Catherine Saint Louis, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 July 2017
  • Then, if feasible, wean them away from the use of personas.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • All my daughter’s peers have been weaned and have been sleeping alone through the night for the last three years.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • Pups of all ages, from newborns to the fully weaned, lay dead or dying at the high-tide line.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024
  • It is used for weaning through 2 months old when starting your puppy on dog food.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
  • The attempt to wean herself off to save money nearly killed her.
    — USA Today, 6 Apr. 2021
  • That may help explain why it’s been hard thus far for the state to wean itself off of natural gas.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The essential premise, for those not weaned on the show, is straightforward.
    — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2020
  • If you’ve been obsessed with the Winter Olympics, this could wean you off the games.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The new dose controlled his blood glucose well, and so our new goal was to wean him fully off of insulin.
    — Ricardo Nuila, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In any case, in Smil’s view the world could take many decades to wean itself off fossil fuels.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The decision to wean, much to the dismay of many, can come from either party.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • For those of us who are still wedded to meat, the question is how to wean ourselves off eating quite so much of it.
    — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The backlash to the idea of weaning off the breast through absence was similar.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • At six months, they would be weaned and eating solid food, but would not have been on many hunts with the adults to learn how to take down prey.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Most of those animals — roughly 900 — are weaned pups.
    — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The group says the research needs to be weaned away from public funding and taken up by the private sector.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019
  • As the West tries to quit all things Russian, oil seems to be the hardest thing to wean itself off of.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The company, based in Juno Beach, started down this road to wean itself off oil.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2017
  • Hospital staff then began to wean the boy off the medications to get him out of his coma.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2026
  • He's also weaned himself from checking on his daughter's location on his phone.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026

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