While a common variety of pepper seeds, for example, might sell for $20 a pound wholesale, Mr. Ogden may pay more than 10 times as much for his highly bred varieties.

She was highly bred, in the best sense of the word.

If such a thing can be, which I doubt, you would have inherited some of the characteristics of the ape, but you have not--you are pure man, and, I should say, the offspring of highly bred and intelligent parents.

They are highly bred, highly trained and highly expensive.

From the white-gold hair, to the narrow, clawlike feet, she was the very epitome of highly bred elvenkind.

He was astride his mare, a highly bred and finely mettled bay, and he reined her down to a walk.

During this time the agricultural programs of the land grant universities were promoting highly bred domestic cattle and saw these as inferior "scrub" animals.

Highly Bred and Sweetly Tempered (2004)

The Ram-kins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.

These herds serve as gene banks, due to their reported resistance to cattle diseases which affect more highly bred cattle types.