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Example sentences for "well bred"

  • The reel meaning of well bred is somebody who is specially gifted in mind and body.

  • The Trilby art-student put in shyly, "Doesn't that show that they're well bred?

  • Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil.

  • It has been noticed that a well bred bitch, if she have been impregnated by a mongrel dog, will not although lined subsequently by a pure dog, bear thorough-bred puppies in the next two or three litters.

  • Except his silence in the coach, she said every thing bespoke him to be a gentleman: well bred, well educated, courageous, and as active as he was bold.

  • And it is with pleasure we observe, that the style of behaviour to governesses, in well bred families, is much changed within these few years.

  • The dress is not preferred because it is pretty or useful, but because it is the distinction of well bred people.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "well bred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    curious account; dull page; easily grown; last consented; well advised; well and; well built; well considered; well convinced; well cooked; well cultivated; well dried; well enough; well filled; well governed; well have; well inhabited; well kept; well pleasing; well recognized; well remembered; well rubbed; well shown; well skilled; well they; well washed