How to Use circumcise in a Sentence

circumcise

verb

• The boys will be circumcised and named about a week after they are discharged from the hospital, Rad says.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Hunter’s relative, Adam, who was living in Warsaw with false papers, found a way to hide the fact that he was circumcised from a landlord who accused him of being Jewish.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2024
• The amount of skin from the time you are circumcised to when you are restored is an index card.
  — Alexa Tsoulis-Reay, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
• Added to the post were images of young girls being circumcised.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 10 Jan. 2018
• For much of the 20th century, the consensus was to circumcise.
  — Zoe Greenberg, New York Times, 25 July 2017
• My brother was born in 1995 and circumcised in the living room, under an airbrushed painting of a Navajo woman.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
• In fact, only about 58 percent babies born today in the United States are circumcised.
  — Vanessa Marin, Allure, 13 Sep. 2018
• The growth factor used in this case is foreskin — harvested and extracted from the stem cells of a Korean newborn's circumcised foreskin.
  — Samantha Sasso, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• As an initiation rite, young men are circumcised with a spear tip then sent into the wilderness for weeks, during which time infection often sets in.
  — Michael Harthorne, Fox News, 25 May 2017
• The youths, known as abakhwetha, are first circumcised without anesthetic, before being sent away from their village and into the bush, with minimal supplies and wrapped in a blanket.
  — Tim Spector, CNN, 5 July 2017
• Some uncircumcised men and people with penises decide to get circumcised as adults.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
• There’s a plotline in which an 18-year-old Russian Jew gets circumcised, and another in which a pair of Beverly Hills stoner hairdressers spend an entire episode making crank calls.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 23 June 2017
• In addition to ramping up treatment, the country also has seen big increases in men opting to be circumcised, a proven way to lower the risk of becoming infected by the AIDS virus.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 24 July 2017
• There are various reasons why people might decide to circumcise their babies.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
• Experts estimate that 38 percent of men worldwide are circumcised, half of them for religious reasons.
  — Martin Selsoe Sorensen, New York Times, 2 June 2018
• The symbolic pinprick is modeled on the Jewish tradition when a non-Jewish child has been secularly circumcised and then converts to Judaism.
  — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
• Experts estimate that 38 percent of men worldwide are circumcised, half for religious reasons.
  — Martin Selsoe Sorensen, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
• But government ministers have reacted with dismay to the prospect of debating another potential world first: a ban on circumcising boys.
  — Martin Selsoe Sorensen, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
• After posting a photo of her kids with a pelican, Pink deleted the original post after a barrage of people criticized her for circumcising her son, who was pictured without a diaper.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2019
• What's the difference between a circumcised and uncircumcised penis?
  — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 14 Aug. 2017
• Terry Brazier, aged 70, went into Leicester Royal Infirmary for a bladder procedure known as a cystoscopy but was mistaken for another patient by hospital staff and circumcised.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 5 Aug. 2019
• Terry Brazier, 70, went into Leicester Royal Infirmary for a bladder procedure known as a cystoscopy but was mistaken for another patient by hospital staff and circumcised.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
• Some newborn babies in certain Jewish communities have died from herpes infections passed along by ultra-Orthodox practitioners who use their mouths in circumcising infant boys.
  — Maggie Fox /, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2018
• Some communities routinely circumcise infant boys for religious or cultural reasons.
  — al, 8 May 2021

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024