How to Use emasculate in a Sentence

emasculate

verb
  • Critics charged that this change would emasculate the law.
  • He plays the role of a meek husband who has been emasculated by his domineering wife.
  • On one level, these guys feel that they have been emasculated.
    — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2018
  • He was fitted with a catheter, which was emasculating enough, but the specter of prostate cancer also loomed.
    — Carolita Johnson, Longreads, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The way @kathygriffin emasculated Kevin Hart is a big insult to blk men.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
  • This is taking programs that people depend on to save lives and emasculating them.
    — Selina Wang, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The terms are in and of themselves wrong, but being judged on those terms, there’s a level of shame, of feeling emasculated.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Here is a president who seems not to feel shame but who does seem to fear, more than anything else, appearing weak or emasculated.
    — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • She was portrayed as an unnatural woman, bloodthirsty, out to emasculate all the men around her.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
  • Coming to their home to emasculate her husband in front of her felt like the kind of thing that would happen in the Jim Crow era.
    — Danelle Morton, ProPublica, 18 Nov. 2023
  • In black men, it is magnified because it is rooted in the idea that society is always trying to emasculate black men.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 10 Jan. 2018
  • That's also a man thing, a de-masculinating, emasculating thing.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 17 May 2023
  • Jordan continues yapping about being emasculated and being less of a man for staying with his wife.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Immobilized and emasculated, the man was then forced to lie there, listening to the rape occurring a room away.
    — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • In other words, the people shouting for Hillary to be locked up are most likely the same people who most fear being emasculated.
    — Sammy Nickalls, Esquire, 5 Nov. 2016
  • And by the way, your girlfriend must be very immature to deliberately emasculate you in front of her friends and family.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 20 May 2018
  • When a mother injects a child with a syringe, the mother is entering the child’s body in a way that could be symbolic for emasculating him.
    — Anna Silman, The Cut, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Trump has emasculated his secretary of state, who clearly does not speak for the administration.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The most laughable irony of this pushback against emasculating Black men is that it’s often framed as being in service of Black women.
    — Tayo Bero, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Williams also alluded to Choyce possibly feeling emasculated in the long run.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The president emasculates those who fall from favor, humiliating them through media leaks and in disparaging comments to friends.
    — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The guy just suffered a massive, historic, emasculating 70-point victory.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The Agojie fight the slave-trading Oyo and then against European slavers, and the women emasculate and devastate the men.
    — Armond White, National Review, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Both women know that forceful men are all often described as strong and assertive, while forceful women are dismissed as angry, emasculating or hectoring.
    — Charlotte Alter, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
  • My letter to the editor would have emasculated those louts for ignoring not just Pat Bowlen, but so many other great Broncos over the years.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 26 June 2019
  • My highest value is freedom, and everyone, including men, should be given the space to express themselves without being emasculated for it.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 7 Aug. 2024
  • On the downside, the show has some terrible notions about Jewish women that play into controlling and emasculating stereotypes.
    — Nina Metz, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Only Adam is so emasculated by the stick, and Peter unwilling to do anything on the day’s shoot other than nod — as previously agreed — that the scene goes unshot.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Left-wing officials sympathize with the lawbreakers, and the police, who rarely sympathize with thugs of any ideology, are ordered to do nothing by emasculated police chiefs.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2017
  • As played by Jackson, Kanan is malice personified, a gleeful killer with a hair-trigger temper and a tendency to humiliate and emasculate his foes.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022

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