How to Use wean in a Sentence

wean

verb
  • The calves are weaned at an early age.
  • Shock — or the desire to shock — is hard to wean off of.
    — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • If you’ve been obsessed with the Winter Olympics, this could wean you off the games.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Eight weeks is same time that they are weaned from their mothers.
    — Alex Kingsbury, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018
  • Some cats might do this when they are weaned too early.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, courant.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bat colonies then must remain untouched until the pups are weaned and able to fly in the fall.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023
  • The baby is close to the end of being weaned, and took bits of veggie treats from a keeper.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
  • Take things slow to wean your body off of added sugar and focus on one step at a time.
    — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 24 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Biden’s plan aims to wean the country off of fossil fuels.
    — Politifact Staff, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The problem can start as soon as babies are weaned and able to eat solid foods.
    — Jane E. Brody, miamiherald, 12 Dec. 2017
  • One fall, an ex-boyfriend convinced me to wean myself off Zoloft.
    — Bel Banta, Health.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Instead, central banks haven’t been able to wean their economies off them.
    — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 May 2019
  • Efforts are under way to wean Japan off genkin, or cash.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Hammes said the IQAir report is even more reason for the world to wean off fossil fuel.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
  • 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 essential premise, for those not weaned on the show, is straightforward.
    — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Most babies are weaned from their moms within four months.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • And in the lion, the appearance of this tooth at ten months of age signals the end of the weaning period.
    — Katie Cottingham, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • But, despite its name, what the bill does to wean the U.S. off of carbon is much more important.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • By honing Burden’s taste, Horowitz weaned him from Cohn.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • That is meant to help wean the country from fossil fuels.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Of course, the ban of Juul could also lead many adults, who are using the product to wean of cigarettes, in the dust.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The advent of autonomous vehicles such as self-driving cars and self-driving trucks is predicted to wean down the need for human drivers.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Once weaned, the kittens should be separated from the mother gradually, allowing her milk to dry up naturally, so that her mammary glands do not become engorged.
    — George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024

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