How to Use castrate in a Sentence

castrate

verb

• Farmers castrated the bull calf.
• During the day, Hunter teaches the women how to castrate bulls — a skill this farmer's wife will need to know.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• The mob spokesman threatens to cut out Joseph’s tongue or castrate him, and tells him to leave Ohio with his followers.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• Members of the lynch mob cut off Hose’s ears and fingers one by one before castrating him.
  — James Forman Jr., The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2017
• The huge hog Seago shot had no markings, ear tags or branding of any kind and had not been castrated.
  — Joe Songer, AL.com, 21 July 2017
• His great-great-grandfather was lynched and castrated by a White mob.
  — John Blake, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• Suranart brought in a team of veterinarians to trap males and then castrate them.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2017
• It is noted, impossibly, that to keep from being killed by a hunter, a beaver would castrate itself and toss its testicles in the hunter’s path.
  — Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
• Voldemort took my wand and snapped it in half at the table, which as far as I'm concerned is like being castrated on national television.
  — Nate Hopper, Esquire, 4 Mar. 2015
• Yoshikawa also has to have enough castrated bulls with the right temperament to handle a harness, all between 3 and 7 years old — the ideal age, according to Yoshikawa.
  — Kelsey Lindsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Aug. 2017
• Well, this condition can be treated with Lupron, a drug which lowers testosterone (it's used to chemically castrate adult men).
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2011
• The actor went hella method on the set of the Jane Campion film: practicing the banjo, learning how to castrate a bull, and developing a powerful stink.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2021
• With public pressure mounting, the government began castrating some of the animals, in an attempt to stem their spread.
  — National Geographic, 10 May 2016
• Her dad is a sweetheart, softening his wife’s judgments, and Twitch is a kindly mentor who teaches Lorraine how to castrate animals, help a cow give birth and keep chickens healthy.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 21 May 2017
• The horror story repeated most urgently among troopers and guards to justify the violence was that the prisoners had castrated one of the hostages.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2016
• And here one is tempted to muse on the risks of direct democracy and the perilous downsides of castrating expertise while empowering the unwashed masses.
  — Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
• Cumberbatch committed to embodying Phil at all times on set, from playing the banjo to ignoring Dunst to learning to castrate a bull.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• Enslaved people across the country were lynched, maimed, castrated, and beaten preemptively in terror, and the myths of roving black male rapists on the hunt for white women took hold as the founding pillar of the modern carceral state.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2016
• 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.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Victor J. Blue, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• This gentle love story set in a forest glen was written for a low female voice and a castrato, a male singer castrated as a child to preserve his ability to produce the high, pure notes of a boy soprano.
  — Marina Harss, New York Times, 2 May 2017
• It's revealed that the men in the cult aren't allowed to masturbate, a policy which closely mirrors the rules of David Koresh's cult (Koresh fathered all of the children in the cult, and had every male member castrated).
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Nov. 2017
• However, because Grey Worm is Unsullied — meaning he was castrated as an infant — some wondered if the pair would ever act on their feelings.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 23 July 2017
• The videos showed a group of men, one whom was seen wearing pro-Russian symbols, castrate and execute a prisoner dressed in military fatigues with Ukrainian military insignia.
  — Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
• This competition has prompted some species’ males to take drastic action, such as castrating themselves to plug the females’ reproductive tract.
  — National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2017
• So Cumberbatch spent considerable time in Montana learning cowboy skills — riding, braiding rope, rolling cigarettes, even how to castrate a bull.
  — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• In an attempt to keep the animals’ numbers from rising exponentially, local authorities have spent thousands of dollars sterilizing them, but the hippos are breeding faster than experts are able to find and castrate them.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• The expensive and easily injured animals are often castrated to improve their tempers.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 4 May 2017
• The expensive and easily injured animals are often castrated to improve their tempers.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 4 May 2017
• Donalds does not indulge in histrionic speeches about mutilation and castrated children.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• Alan Turing, the pioneering British computer scientist, was chemically castrated by his government for being gay in 1952.
  — Clio Chang, New Republic, 18 Aug. 2017

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