How to Use castrate in a Sentence

castrate

verb
  • Farmers castrated the bull calf.
  • The first is a li’l pony that has to be chloroformed so Siegfried can castrate it.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
  • In an unnamed city, a man has been murdered and castrated, his body left in an alley.
    — Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • His great-great-grandfather was lynched and castrated by a White mob.
    — John Blake, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Suranart brought in a team of veterinarians to trap males and then castrate them.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2017
  • During the day, Hunter teaches the women how to castrate bulls — a skill this farmer's wife will need to know.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Members of the lynch mob cut off Hose’s ears and fingers one by one before castrating him.
    — James Forman Jr., The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2017
  • The huge hog Seago shot had no markings, ear tags or branding of any kind and had not been castrated.
    — Joe Songer, AL.com, 21 July 2017
  • The mob spokesman threatens to cut out Joseph’s tongue or castrate him, and tells him to leave Ohio with his followers.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • It is noted, impossibly, that to keep from being killed by a hunter, a beaver would castrate itself and toss its testicles in the hunter’s path.
    — Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
  • With public pressure mounting, the government began castrating some of the animals, in an attempt to stem their spread.
    — National Geographic, 10 May 2016
  • Well, this condition can be treated with Lupron, a drug which lowers testosterone (it's used to chemically castrate adult men).
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2011
  • Voldemort took my wand and snapped it in half at the table, which as far as I'm concerned is like being castrated on national television.
    — Nate Hopper, Esquire, 4 Mar. 2015
  • If the very successful 25-year-old Coward had been caught with a man, he could have been jailed or chemically castrated.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Donkey has now been castrated, and the adorable family trio lives together in a large field with Partridge's other horses.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
  • This competition has prompted some species’ males to take drastic action, such as castrating themselves to plug the females’ reproductive tract.
    — National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2017
  • The footage shows Partridge crying her eyes out over the prospect of losing Lilly, only to be surprised with a new addition in the shape of Coco.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
  • And here one is tempted to muse on the risks of direct democracy and the perilous downsides of castrating expertise while empowering the unwashed masses.
    — Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
  • The horror story repeated most urgently among troopers and guards to justify the violence was that the prisoners had castrated one of the hostages.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2016
  • Their task was to castrate the stallion — a necessary surgery to keep the animal from becoming uncontrollable and a danger to its owner and to other animals.
    — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Victor J. Blue, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Under colonial rule hijras were accused of acting as male prostitutes and of kidnapping and castrating children to grow their community.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
  • The expensive and easily injured animals are often castrated to improve their tempers.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 4 May 2017
  • The victims are all male, the corpses all castrated, and each crime scene is signed with lines of poetry by the Argentinean writer Alejandra Pizarnik.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Cumberbatch committed to embodying Phil at all times on set, from playing the banjo to ignoring Dunst to learning to castrate a bull.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • This gentle love story set in a forest glen was written for a low female voice and a castrato, a male singer castrated as a child to preserve his ability to produce the high, pure notes of a boy soprano.
    — Marina Harss, New York Times, 2 May 2017
  • Tasks included repairing barbed wire fences, castrating animals and laying irrigation pipes, the suit alleges.
    — Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 12 June 2025
  • Her dad is a sweetheart, softening his wife’s judgments, and Twitch is a kindly mentor who teaches Lorraine how to castrate animals, help a cow give birth and keep chickens healthy.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 21 May 2017
  • However, because Grey Worm is Unsullied — meaning he was castrated as an infant — some wondered if the pair would ever act on their feelings.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 23 July 2017
  • So Cumberbatch spent considerable time in Montana learning cowboy skills — riding, braiding rope, rolling cigarettes, even how to castrate a bull.
    — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • There was a serial castrator on the Upper West Side who would take kids, lead ’m into Central Park, castrate them, and then murder them.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026

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