castrate

Example Sentences

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“Why would they completely castrate this iconic, beloved character?” she wrote.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2022

So Cumberbatch spent considerable time in Montana learning cowboy skills — riding, braiding rope, rolling cigarettes, even how to castrate a bull.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021

The anxiety of influence can trigger hysterical pastiche or castrate an author’s creativity.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2020

His formative influences included his grandfather Lawrence Preston Gise, who is usually described in press accounts as Bezos would’ve known him – a semi-retired rancher showing his grandson how to castrate bulls.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2019

What would a society of eunuchs achieve?—But of course they are not eunuchs, in somer, but rather more comparable to preadolescents: not castrate, but latent.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin