undomesticated

Example Sentences

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"We can use these modern tools to domesticate undomesticated crops."

From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026

The species was thought to be extinct in the wild until the early 20th century when a supposedly undomesticated population was found in western China.

From National Geographic • Oct. 4, 2023

I was completely undomesticated — I mean, I lived with a bare bulb in the ceiling and a few chairs, and I only thought about making work, and that was it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Like dogs breeding with wolves, chickens sometimes mate with their undomesticated cousins.

From Scientific American • Apr. 8, 2023

The disquietude he felt on Katahdin’s granite heights inspired some of his most powerful writing and profoundly colored the way he thought thereafter about the earth in its coarse, undomesticated state.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer