good breeding
Example Sentences
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In part, that’s because Elizabeth Ann is likely to have just a few good breeding years, and annual litters average only three to five kits.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 13, 2022
But for about 250 years, all of these signposts of wealth and good breeding were ably fulfilled by... the pineapple.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2020
Distinctions of wealth and talent continued to exist in America, but republican leaders increasingly attributed their success to hard work and personal merit instead of birth and good breeding.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
With all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2011
He was so sure of his own good breeding, he could laugh affectionately at the rich-quick vulgarities of the uncle who had adopted him and from whom he had inherited his fortune.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
