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
• Some commentators have called it a process of castration.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
• Brown did not heed the concerns of a staff psychologist at Bank Street, who expressed trepidation that the bandaged eyes evoked castration.
  — Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Lawmakers in Texas and Idaho have grouped treatments like puberty blockers with castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, vaginoplasty and mastectomies — procedures that are not performed on people under the age of 18 in the United States.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 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
• 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
• 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
• Across India, medical practitioners and health care professionals offer conversion therapy in the form of counseling, medication, institutionalization, hormone injections, and even electro-convulsive therapy and hormonal castration.
  — Time, 6 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024