How to Use eunuch in a Sentence

eunuch

noun

• The very first missionary in the book of Acts was a castrated Black man, the Ethiopian eunuch.
  — John Blake, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
• Just be glad our second favorite eunuch (behind Varys but in front of Theon) is safe and sound.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 21 Aug. 2017
• Another risk: The Zenned-out Warriors would be mocked as zombies, eunuchs and kiss-ups.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Ken is the first man—or, technically, eunuch—many little girls will ever see nude.
  — Caity Weaver, GQ, 21 June 2017
• What’s worse, he inadvertently gets caught up in a eunuch’s plot against Tipu Sultan.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• He is castrated, turned into a eunuch, and taken to Algiers.
  — National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sima Qian, the Chinese world historian (born circa 145 BC), was accused of defaming the emperor and given a choice between execution and becoming a palace eunuch.
  — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2023
• 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
• What happened: True love conquers everything, including the very obvious physical limitations of Grey Worm being a eunuch whose penis and testicles had been removed.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 12 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024