HUSBANDRY in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for HUSBANDRY, such as:

1. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
2. Animal husbandry on the grassland is developing rapidly.
3. The basin favours the development of farming and animal husbandry.
4. Pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in his husbandry.
5. If no system of husbandry answered at all without these improvements, you would be quite right.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUSBANDRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
husbandry
 n.  practice of cultivating the land or raising stock; care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift
Classic Sentence:
1  Yes, I ought to have said to him: You say that our husbandry does not answer because the peasant hates improvements, and that they must be forced on him by authority.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 28
2  If no system of husbandry answered at all without these improvements, you would be quite right.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 28
3  And to do this one must lower the standard of husbandry and interest the laborers in its success.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 28
4  Gladly will I do as you wish, since for many a day past have I been longing to amend my life, and to engage in husbandry, and to reorder my affairs.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
5  Pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in his husbandry.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII
6  As to persons of quality, they give security to appropriate a certain sum for each child, suitable to their condition; and these funds are always managed with good husbandry and the most exact justice.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
Example Sentence:
1  Animal husbandry on the grassland is developing rapidly.
2  The basin favours the development of farming and animal husbandry.
3  Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
4  Let us examine the evolution of animal husbandry in the light of these three great, if harsh, truths.
5  Many of Yunnan nomadic tribes or those engaged in husbandry, in particular, relied on agricultural products from Sichuan.