cull

Example Sentences

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Bardot - or B.B. as she was known in France - campaigned against the annual seal cull in Canada, and irritated some of her countrymen by condemning the eating of horse meat.

From BBC

To solve it, she has employed a full-time worker whose main job is culling deer.

From BBC

Cooked on a stone slate -- or in a hot pot with vegetables -- the meat comes from bears culled to curb maulings that have killed a record 13 people this year.

From Barron's

The wild deer "populations are essentially culled by trained people," Davies said, adding "the traceability is very clear".

From Barron's

It comes after bird flu led to large numbers of turkeys being culled early, while a drier spring and summer hit sprout harvests.

From BBC