How to Use geld in a Sentence

geld

verb
  • He has been gelded since that start and posted a solid work here on Tuesday.
    — Mike Battaglia, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Now, gelt at Hanukkah can take the form of candy or actual money in a card.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 20 Dec. 2017
  • For the second time this season, the Red Raiders gelded the Cougars.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Half of the gelding’s six career victories have come at Gulfstream.
    — Tim Dwyer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Copper is a chestnut appaloosa gelding with severe laminitis.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Once there, we were greeted wordlessly by some Navajo cowboys and paired up with our mounts, mine a paint gelding with a wild look in his eyes.
    — Guy Trebay, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Following the bad start, the gelding angled in for clearance and finished fairly well far back while guzzled nearing the wire.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • To avoid getting into a dangerous donkey situation in the first place, geld your donkey.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 7 May 2018
  • Three weeks later, in the Belmont Stakes, the gelding sustained multiple fractures in his left leg and was put down.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 9 June 2018
  • Those scenarios are plausible because college and pro sports are loaded with examples of teams gelding themselves to keep a star player happy.
    — Mac Engel april 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026
  • By gelding a choirboy, the Church would suspend his gossamer vocal cords so that a child’s song could live on in a man’s throat, backed, crucially, by a man’s powerful lungs.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • According to owner Dan Hurtak, the plan was for jockey Jose Bautista to put the 5-year-old gelding right on the lead.
    — Tim Dwyer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The horse that did it way back then was the chestnut gelding Apollo, named after the Greek god of many things, including the paradoxical powers to both heal and plague.
    — Melissa Hoppert, New York Times, 6 May 2018
  • One of her riders was Kailyn Rodriguez who competed with her 13-year-old warmblood gelding horse Filiberke in a couple of divisions.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Fuchs, riding the experienced gelding Clooney 51, and Maher with Explosion W, produced four flawless rounds over two days to win the final event of the regular season.
    — Danielle Rossingh, CNN, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Hagel named his 9-year-old buckskin gelding Shamrock, after his high school mascot, and Rumsfeld named his Montana, because the arid, mountainous landscape around the Mongolian capital reminded him of that state.
    — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019

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