How to Use circumcision in a Sentence

circumcision

noun

• There was a boy born among the Jews who have remained in Dnipro, and no one is in the city to perform the circumcision.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• People filled the streets to greet a procession that precedes the circumcision of the boys.
  — Jordan Simeonov, Star Tribune, 12 Apr. 2021
• When a nurse pages a doctor for a circumcision, that boy is likely heading home in the next few hours.
  — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2022
• Medical male circumcision, thought to slow the spread of the virus, decreased by 27%.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• But in a play both funny and poignant, the parents are at odds over whether to go through with the circumcision ritual.
  — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
• Questions about her days on the coast, her childhood, her brother, her dad, all lead to the same place: circumcision.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2020
• Jordan made her first film, about female circumcision, at the age of 18.
  — Abby Aguirre, Marie Claire, 2 Apr. 2014
• Some compared the ear piercing to male circumcision, saying that if one was OK, so was the other.
  — Leah Asmelash and Doug Criss, CNN, 4 July 2019
• For decades, circumcision was something of a given in the United States.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Men's Health, 31 Jan. 2023
• The result is a rate of circumcision around 10 percent.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Mar. 2018
• The push to curb circumcision has been brewing in parts of Europe for several years.
  — Christina Caron, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• Today northeastern states have circumcision rates two to three times higher than in the west.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2013
• Born in Guinea, she was forced into exile as a child, underwent a female circumcision at nine years old, and was married and had a child at 17.
  — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Aug. 2023
• In response, the Emperor had the officer concerned put to death and repealed the law against circumcision.
  — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2022
• Women who took their daughters for circumcision were not taking them there to destroy them.
  — Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
• The prevalence of circumcision in America is also a function of fee-for-service medicine.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Mar. 2018
• Oh my God, remember when Charlotte made this guy get an adult circumcision??!?!?!?!?!?!?!
  — Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 6 June 2018
• City officials have also fought against a Jewish ritual in which a man sucks the blood from an infant’s circumcision wound.
  — Paul Berger and Katie Honan, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• The shooter attacked the Tree of Life synagogue during a bris, the ritual circumcision and party marking the entry of a new Jewish boy into the world.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
• Their key scene together takes place on a double-date dinner in a Chinese restaurant scene, where a drunk Sheila has questions about circumcision.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• Still, many parents decide against circumcision for their sons.
  — Rita Giordano, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019
• The foreskin is collected during circumcision, at which point the stem cells are extracted through a centrifuge.
  — Maria Del Russo, Glamour, 4 May 2018
• The procedure, also known as female circumcision, has roots in various cultures in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
  — Kyle Potter, Twin Cities, 29 Apr. 2017
• The families gather for a baby’s circumcision, and a Gentile banker is mistaken for the mohel.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• Kamau had argued that many women want to undergo circumcision but the law prevents them.
  — Tom Odula, Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
• In one of the pictures, Ka-Fossie poses in a dress resembling the white blanket men wear during the Xhosa circumcision ceremony.
  — Wired, 3 Oct. 2019
• On a recent summer’s evening, Mr. Peker’s family held a street party to celebrate the circumcision of their son, Poyaz.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• An art exhibit coming to Philly this week will stir up a decades-old debate: Infant male circumcision is a procedure many take for granted.
  — Ray Boyd, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
• Because her vaginal area was sewn shut, Chanel needed to have the circumcision medically fixed.
  — Lanae Brody, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2022
• While Loren watched the circumcision with tears running down her face, Alexei helps the mohel — a religious circumciser, who leads the event — complete the procedure.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 25 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024