How to Use castration in a Sentence

castration

noun
  • This results in the altogether ooky castration of one of the boys.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The second century saw a vogue for voluntary castration, but the fad was brief.
    — Spencer Strub, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • In later years, some members of the group underwent castration.
    — Claire Weinraub, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Guido is a castrati, a male singer who underwent castration before puberty to preserve his soprano singing voice.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 12 Nov. 2025
  • In 2022, shocking headlines broke about a group of men who were performing castrations and livestreaming them to paying customers.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The Catholic Church, for a time, saw no reason to surrender its finest young larynxes to the whims of puberty—not when castration was an option.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • And while endoscopic avian vasectomies (where the vas deferens is cut) are less complicated than full castration (where the testes are removed), surgery is still surgery.
    — Patricia Mazzei Alfonso Duran, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Most patients with metastatic castration prostate cancer often succumb to their illness within two to three years, noted Rafelson, who was not involved in the study.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Landry's surgical castration law is one of several controversial bills getting attention across the pond.
    — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Alejandro Mira got the call to assist in his first surgical castration of a hippo last October.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • Leftists are using a mass shooting to try and blackmail us into accepting the castration and sexualization of children.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 21 Nov. 2022
  • More advanced nurses also get trained in managing disease, performing castration, goat breeding and marketing, and more.
    — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The item is a concentration camp uniform belonging to a gay survivor, accompanied by a photo of him donning the clothes and a certificate of castration.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Each surgical castration will take a team of eight — including veterinarians, technicians and support staff — between six and eight hours.
    — Nature Magazine, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The law also banned the force-feeding of poultry, the improper castration of piglets, and the general maltreatment or neglect, broadly defined, of any animals at all.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
  • That sort of press—the impudent, intrusive, populist variety—serves as a reminder of the British monarchy’s twenty-first-century castration.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
  • One victim, Dan Levin, who had been beaten and threatened with castration by Ray multiple times, left after a rare night alone led him to the roof of his building to contemplate suicide.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Though his trial and death bore eerie parallels to that of Hugh Despenser, Mortimer was at least spared the whole castration/disembowelment/beheading thing.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
  • Jernigan rejected Carroll’s Freudian sense of blindness—Carroll has described it in terms of castration—in favor of a civil-rights approach.
    — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • Members increasingly discussed denial of sexuality to the point of castration, which some members undertook.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The first vasectomy on record was performed on a dog in 1823 by Sir Astley Cooper as an alternative to complete castration.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
  • The body is discovered by a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza, who is versed in the distinctions between literal and symbolic castration, and who also reports the crime to the police.
    — Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • These tiers lead to progressively higher welfare practices, including prohibitions against the transportation of live animals and against physical alterations, such as beak trimming or castration.
    — Miyun Park, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2012
  • The program was developed based on a philosophy that the castration of a stallion will help prevent accidental, backyard, or overbreeding, thereby reducing the number of unwanted horses being born.
    — Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Transgender women usually take antiandrogens with estrogen (or castration) to reduce the effects of androgens such as testosterone and induce feminization.
    — New Atlas, 31 July 2025
  • But the procedure, an invasive surgical castration, is medically complicated, expensive and sometimes dangerous for hippos as well as for the people performing it.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • That includes violent rape to brutal whippings, castration, public spectacle lynchings, mob violence, convict leasing, false convictions and socio-economic marginalization, just to name a few.
    — Nai Ya Maji, Essence, 18 June 2022
  • Oscar Wilde, for example, reposes beneath a hulking deity whose iconoclastic castration, back in 1961, did little to restrain pilgrims seeking to smear red lips across his stony physique.
    — Emily Cox, ARTnews.com, 22 May 2026
  • The extermination of youth is analogous to massacring society’s future and potential — a fear connected to movements that enforce unproven vaccines or that encourage chemical and surgical castration.
    — Armond White, National Review, 20 July 2022
  • Ukrainian officials also reacted with outrage after an unverified video that appeared to show the castration of a Ukrainian prisoner of war by a Russian soldier circulated on social media.
    — Brett Forrest, WSJ, 29 July 2022

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