castrate

Example Sentences

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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

But alongside these essential legal updates, Thorne has revealed a way to castrate it, to remove its power.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2019

“He said, ‘You know how to castrate a zebra?’ and I said, ‘Well, I never have but it looks like a striped horse to me.’

From Washington Times • Oct. 21, 2018

We could catch most of the pigs we needed to mark and castrate without ever getting in reach of the old hogs.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson