castrate

Example Sentences

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Another contract would provide funding to DonkeyLand to castrate 100 donkeys within a year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2025

She also helped vaccinate and castrate calves on his family’s farm without any squeamishness.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 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