Tom Brokaw

We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.

American Journalist

Burt Ward

I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.

American Actor

Edna O'Brien

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Irish Novelist

Gene Hackman

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Use 'sire' to discuss an animal's male lineage, commonly with pedigree animals.

Animal Lineage

'Sire' is often used in the context of animal breeding and genetics.

Breeding Context

'Sire' as a title is mostly historical and depicts respect towards royalty.

Historic Address

Used in role-playing or themed events to evoke a medieval atmosphere.

Role-Play Language

While archaic, 'sire' reflects extreme politeness in historical contexts.

Formal Address

Appears in literature or drama to represent customs of past societies.

Drama and Literature

As a verb, 'sire' is exclusive to animal fatherhood, not used for humans.

Specific to Animals

Common in discussing bloodlines, especially when tracking thoroughbreds.

Heraldry and Pedigree

 And there are lots of ways to experience being genderqueer, but for me that means I don't really identify as a man or a woman. I feel in between and sometimes outside of this gender binary. And being outside of this gender binary means that sometimes I get "sired" and "ma'amed" in the span of less than an hour when I'm out doing everyday things like getting Cheerios.

What it's like to be a...

 unless otherwise they are the fathers of his Cubs and it's you know coming into contact direct contact with an infected you know animal that you pick up the mites and you get an infection I wonder whether these cabs were sired by their workers or the Birmingham's and anybody

Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...

 Eggs are very expensive to make, so it makes sense for females to be very choosy about who she shares them with. Sperm, on the other hand, is abundant and cheap, so it makes more sense for males to have a more-sex-is-better strategy when it comes to siring members

The birds and the bees...

 Cubs has been raised by Sharron and whether this lot would be able to sire Cubs yes technically they have the equipment and the maturity to sire Cubs at this stage but whether or not they would be able to convince a prior two females to allow that are not really

Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...

 kicking off because he's come into the area when a ball is in mass their testosterone levels saw 60 times greater than normal as they prepare to compete for females and will do whatever it takes to sire the next generation coughs are born completely dependent on

South Africa's Strongest...

 every new calf is another mouth to feed on limited, shared resources. An older female can further her genes without burdening her family by supporting her adult sons, who sire calves other families will raise. This might be why the females have evolved

Inside the killer whale...

 dead, or simply too numerous to feed. In other mammals, including bears and lions, males will kill offspring sired by another. That’s because childless females become receptive to mating more quickly than if they were caring for a cub.

Cannibalism in the...

 therefore sire their own Cubs rather than the Cubs of another male methyl naughty things going wandering into the dangerous big white world luckily you've got one large mother and two big auntie's to keep you safe I was telling

Safari Live - Day 69 PIPE...

 encouragement to get into the sky but after a few seconds he finally makes up into the air and thanks to the team this young swift will hopefully one day return back here to somerset to the same nest site to sire his very

Small Creatures In Need...

 it reached our relief site the protected area we'll be looking for a tree and we can throw the rope over to open the capture cage gate sire rope through the gate and flow that rope over a tree and