castrate

Example Sentences

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Their task was to castrate the stallion — a necessary surgery to keep the animal from becoming uncontrollable and a danger to its owner and to other animals.

From New York Times • May 9, 2023

So Cumberbatch spent considerable time in Montana learning cowboy skills — riding, braiding rope, rolling cigarettes, even how to castrate a bull.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021

The anxiety of influence can trigger hysterical pastiche or castrate an author’s creativity.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2020

“Lay people can castrate and dehorn, but they don’t always recognize if an animal is sick,” he said.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2020

What would a society of eunuchs achieve?—But of course they are not eunuchs, in somer, but rather more comparable to preadolescents: not castrate, but latent.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin