Housebreak is an English word with synonyms like train or develop. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Housebreak meaning
- To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
- To break into a house, typically to burgle it.
Using Housebreak
- The main meaning on this page is: To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle. | To break into a house, typically to burgle it.
- Useful related words include: house-train, train, develop, prepare.
- In the example corpus, housebreak often appears in combinations such as: to housebreak, housebreak and.
Context around Housebreak
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Housebreak
- In this selection, "housebreak" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, themselves stand out and add context to how "housebreak" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include cases will housebreak themselves and difficult to housebreak and patience. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "housebreak" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with housebreak
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Because of their fastidious and proud nature, Shiba puppies are easy to housebreak and in many cases will housebreak themselves. (20 words)
Mini dachshund displaying typical burrowing behavior Dachshunds can be difficult to housebreak, and patience and consistency is often needed in this endeavor. (22 words)
He added one of the suspects is sought after by the police for a housebreak-in incident that occurred in Academia two months ago. (24 words)
He added one of the suspects is sought after by the police for a housebreak-in incident that occurred in Academia two months ago. (24 words)
Mini dachshund displaying typical burrowing behavior Dachshunds can be difficult to housebreak, and patience and consistency is often needed in this endeavor. (22 words)
Because of their fastidious and proud nature, Shiba puppies are easy to housebreak and in many cases will housebreak themselves. (20 words)
Example sentences (3)
Because of their fastidious and proud nature, Shiba puppies are easy to housebreak and in many cases will housebreak themselves.
He added one of the suspects is sought after by the police for a housebreak-in incident that occurred in Academia two months ago.
Mini dachshund displaying typical burrowing behavior Dachshunds can be difficult to housebreak, and patience and consistency is often needed in this endeavor.
Common combinations with housebreak
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to housebreak 2×
- housebreak and 2×