How to Use eunuch in a Sentence

eunuch

noun
  • Jesus says in the Gospel of Matthew that some men are born eunuchs.
    — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 17 May 2024
  • Ken is the first man—or, technically, eunuch—many little girls will ever see nude.
    — Caity Weaver, GQ, 21 June 2017
  • Ken is the first man—or, technically, eunuch—many little girls will ever see nude.
    — Longreads, 20 July 2023
  • The boundaries between eunuchs and hijras might have indeed been porous at times.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
  • Just be glad our second favorite eunuch (behind Varys but in front of Theon) is safe and sound.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Although enslaved, these eunuchs were key members of the Mughal royal courts.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
  • At Saracens, Moors, eunuchs, Ruth wondered.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • What’s worse, he inadvertently gets caught up in a eunuch’s plot against Tipu Sultan.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • The empress returns to her chambers to weep, only to be strangled by a eunuch under the noble consort’s orders.
    — Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026
  • Pfanz also believes eunuch priests only made their sacrifices in the morning or evening hours, when the concentration of the gas was deadly enough.
    — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 19 Feb. 2018
  • This downplays the social position of actual eunuchs, who sometimes rose to high-ranking positions in the church.
    — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
  • After months of pressure from his mother and sister, Herod ordered the torture of Mariamne’s favorite eunuch to get the dirt on his wife.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
  • But the difference is those characters have had on-screen relationships and romantic scenes, whereas Jack might as well have been a eunuch.
    — Ira Madison Iii, GQ, 20 June 2017
  • Miller cannot remedy Byatt’s upper-class patronization, which relies upon a eunuch hero with no phallus, just a mermaid’s mound.
    — Armond White, National Review, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Jesus further showed this by immediately building his African church, calling to himself a leader in, of all things, a eunuch, just as the prophet had foretold.
    — Russell Moore, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Ancient authors used many different words for these people, such as hermaphrodite, eunuch, androgyne, tribad, malthakos and others.
    — Ky Merkley, The Conversation, 15 June 2026
  • Royal gardens, peeling frescoes, and tiled mosaics are breathtaking in their beauty, but the zenith of any visit is a wander through the sultan’s harem, once home to hundreds of concubines and their eunuch guards.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Before there were incels, there was Charles Guiteau, who spent five years as a near-literal eunuch at the orgy that was the Oneida Community.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
  • However, hijras represented themselves as female or third gender and were more marginal than eunuchs within Mughal society.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
  • The material was first developed by Cai Lun, a second-century eunuch in the court of the Eastern Han dynasty, who used pulp from tree bark and other materials to make thin paper sheets.
    — Bobby Miller, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The two-hour service featured messages, prayers, music and Bible readings chosen by Rohrer, including the story of a follower of Jesus who met and baptized a eunuch - groundbreaking in ancient times.
    — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The sultan was the only heterosexual man allowed within the walls of the harem, which was guarded by African eunuchs (homosexual only, to be super-duper sure of no hanky-panky), whose quarters were off the harem's hauntingly lovely first corridor.
    — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
  • Italian master director Bernardo Bertolucci cast him as the eunuch Chang in The Last Emperor, his sweeping biopic of Puyi, China's final monarch.
    — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Dec. 2025

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