How to Use emasculate in a Sentence

emasculate

verb

• Critics charged that this change would emasculate the law.
• He plays the role of a meek husband who has been emasculated by his domineering wife.
• The way @kathygriffin emasculated Kevin Hart is a big insult to blk men.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• The terms are in and of themselves wrong, but being judged on those terms, there’s a level of shame, of feeling emasculated.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2019
• He was fitted with a catheter, which was emasculating enough, but the specter of prostate cancer also loomed.
  — Carolita Johnson, Longreads, 28 Oct. 2019
• On one level, these guys feel that they have been emasculated.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2018
• The Agojie fight the slave-trading Oyo and then against European slavers, and the women emasculate and devastate the men.
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 Sep. 2022
• Smith: The course is emasculated by its back-nine start of three consecutive par-3s, none of them notable.
  — Scott Hanson, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018
• In other words, the people shouting for Hillary to be locked up are most likely the same people who most fear being emasculated.
  — Sammy Nickalls, Esquire, 5 Nov. 2016
• The most laughable irony of this pushback against emasculating Black men is that it’s often framed as being in service of Black women.
  — Tayo Bero, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• Here is a president who seems not to feel shame but who does seem to fear, more than anything else, appearing weak or emasculated.
  — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
• Dear Miss Manners: My close friend is married to a woman who is very critical of him in front of his friends, often in emasculating ways.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• Immobilized and emasculated, the man was then forced to lie there, listening to the rape occurring a room away.
  — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2018
• When a mother injects a child with a syringe, the mother is entering the child’s body in a way that could be symbolic for emasculating him.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 26 Jan. 2018
• She was portrayed as an unnatural woman, bloodthirsty, out to emasculate all the men around her.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
• My letter to the editor would have emasculated those louts for ignoring not just Pat Bowlen, but so many other great Broncos over the years.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 26 June 2019
• In black men, it is magnified because it is rooted in the idea that society is always trying to emasculate black men.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 10 Jan. 2018
• And by the way, your girlfriend must be very immature to deliberately emasculate you in front of her friends and family.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 20 May 2018
• Fox News is doing no such thing, instead making the case again and again that Trump is—like its hosts and viewers—a victim of a vast conspiracy intended to disempower and emasculate.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• That's also a man thing, a de-masculinating, emasculating thing.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 17 May 2023
• Trump has emasculated his secretary of state, who clearly does not speak for the administration.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
• When Peter sends an apparently sincere email begging him to visit and hear his apology, though, C.W. finally decides to confront his past — or, at the very least, flaunt his success and emasculate the guy who got the girl.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 June 2021
• The guy just suffered a massive, historic, emasculating 70-point victory.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 3 Sep. 2019
• As played by Jackson, Kanan is malice personified, a gleeful killer with a hair-trigger temper and a tendency to humiliate and emasculate his foes.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
• The president emasculates those who fall from favor, humiliating them through media leaks and in disparaging comments to friends.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2018
• In fact the movement’s goal was to emasculate the Food and Drug Administration, with the consequence of undermining public health and harming all patients by allowing untested treatments out into the wild.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Both women know that forceful men are all often described as strong and assertive, while forceful women are dismissed as angry, emasculating or hectoring.
  — Charlotte Alter, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
• The book reaches its final crescendo when a Texas senator is emasculated by Martians and discovered by his intern, who starts to broadcast this inconvenient truth.
  — Yu-Yun Hsieh, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
• Houser blames a variety of factors for that situation from lack of government support for spay-and-neuter programs to a perception by some pet owners that altering their pets emasculates them and it’s against their belief.
  — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 21 Aug. 2019
• Left-wing officials sympathize with the lawbreakers, and the police, who rarely sympathize with thugs of any ideology, are ordered to do nothing by emasculated police chiefs.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2017

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