How to Use declaw in a Sentence

declaw

verb

• We had our cats declawed.
• The bobcat weighs 14 pounds and has been declawed on all four paws.
  — Howard Ludwig, Daily Southtown, 30 Mar. 2018
• Don't get your cat declawed—give them scratching posts and mats to scratch instead.
  — Medea Giordano, Wired, 4 June 2020
• Already neutered (and declawed), the now-famous feline was a steal at the $20 adoption fee.
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• Most tourists who enjoy these encounters don’t know that the adult tigers may be declawed, drugged, or both.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• When the black bear was a year old, he was defanged and declawed, his mouth altered into a gummy mash of pink gums and tongue.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The debate around declawing is long-running and fierce.
  — Hank Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
• Under the bill, people who violate the ban on declawing a cat could face fines of $1,000.
  — NBC News, 4 June 2019
• Adult tigers may be drugged or even declawed to make interaction safe.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
• Michigan may become the second state in the country, after New York, to ban the practice of declawing cats.
  — Andrea Perez Balderrama, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2020
• Cats are often declawed in an effort to prevent them from scratching.
  — Madeline Fitzgerald, Time, 5 June 2019
• Lawmakers are weighing a ban on the practice of declawing cats.
  — USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
• He had been declawed and displayed at a North Carolina roadside zoo where animals were kept in concrete pits.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
• Among the more important structural features of the package are a pledge to remake the Supreme Court to declaw its emergent anti-labor majority.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2019
• These cat owners should not need to face relinquishment or euthanasia of their pet because the option to declaw cats is unavailable.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 23 July 2019
• Foo Foo Kitty was declawed before the Jenness family adopted the feline.
  — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Unlike human nails, a cat's claws are attached to bone, so declawing a feline requires a veterinarian to slice through tendon and nerves to remove the last segment of bone in a cat's toes.
  — Fox News, 5 June 2019
• WannaCry has been declawed, thanks to the creators’ sloppy coding and a timely move by a British security researcher who goes by the pseudonym MalwareTech.
  — Charlie Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2017
• Tim Stark of Wildlife in Need won't be allowed to declaw big cats, display cat cubs for the public or separate baby cubs prematurely from their mothers, a judge ordered Monday.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 4 Aug. 2020
• Mr. Erdogan came to power in 2002, pledging to declaw the once powerful military.
  — Eric Schmitt and Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 16 July 2016
• Socks is litter trained, neutered and was front declawed before coming to PAWS (not something advocated by the group), and his list of endearing qualities seems never-ending.
  — Laura Bruck, cleveland.com, 7 May 2017
• One cheetah is seen getting declawed; another is dying on-camera.
  — CNN, 28 Aug. 2019
• Animal activists claim declawing is a needlessly painful process, and the Humane Society recommends it only in the most dire circumstances, when the health of the cat is affected.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 4 June 2019
• Editor's note: This story was updated on July 10 to include more information about the New York cat declawing ban.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 10 July 2019
• With its allies declawed, America has now abandoned them altogether.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2019
• But declawing is an invasive, painful operation that removes individual toe bones from the cat’s paws, Dr. Jefferson said.
  — Elisha Brown, New York Times, 22 July 2019
• Supporters of a ban include animal welfare advocates, who say declawing is cruel.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2019
• Animal-welfare advocates and many veterinarians say declawing involves the amputation of a cat's toes back to the first knuckle and leaves them permanently injured.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
• In addition, the bill proposes new restrictions on declawing cats, cosmetic animal testing, animal cruelty, and the sale of rabbits.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• The anti-declawing measure, which took effect immediately, makes exceptions only for necessary medical purposes.
  — Mac Vanrenterghem, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2019

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024