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How to use cull in a sentence

26 example sentences · verb, noun

Cull means to pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). Example: “The company culled more employees this month.”

Examples of cull by meaning

verbTo pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).

  • 1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album
  • Likewise, performances culled mostly from the night's winning acts - with no special guests or even much in the way of mashups, a longtime AMA specialty - provided a much-needed shot in the arm for a reeling local populace.2020 March 20, Doug Freeman, “Stuff That Works”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 39, number 29, page 56

verbTo lay off in order to reduce the numbers of; get rid of.

  • The company culled more employees this month.

verbTo selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.

  • "Will cull any objects further from the camera than a given distance.2023 July 17, Blender Foundation, "Blender 3.6 Manual"

nounAn organized killing of selected animals.

  • It seemed that the sun shone and all was right in our Blakean islands until the government began to set in motion its promised cull of badgers in an effort to control bovine TB.2012 December 21, Isobel Montgomery, “A year that showed the best and worst of Britain”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page...

nounA man or boy.

  • But you don't want no dealings with that cull.1997, Chris Hunt, Duval's Gold, page 58

More sentences with cull

  • As for which hen we'll cull for next Sunday's dinner, we certainly won't eat Henrietta yet — she's still a prime layer.From the entry layer
  • If it’s true, this would have conservation implications, as older giraffes are often culled or trophy hunted.2021 August 7, Cara Giaimo, “We’ve Underestimated the Social Lives of Giraffes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry trophy hunt
  • China has culled 1.2 million pigs in an effort to contain a deadly swine disease.2019 September 10, Alexandra Stevenson, Raymond Zhong, “China’s Pork Prices Soar, Adding to Beijing’s Troubles”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Yiyang
  • 'We had the cull all set up and then something went wrong.2010, Eric Berne, What Do You Say After You Say Hello?, →ISBN. From the entry damber
  • Don't be hesitant to fire a client - cull out the deadwood.1979, Richard Collins Rea, Operating a Successful Accounting Practice: A Collection of Material from the Journal of Accountancy…. From the entry fire
  • Progeny were closely culled and crossbacked with emphasis on fertility, mothering ability, and gain ability.1974, Farmers' Bulletin, page 21. From the entry crossback
  • When egg prices or cull prices, or both, are low, there is a tendency to overcull.1966, Pacific Poultryman, volume 72, page 21. From the entry overcull
  • That is precisely what the NFU should be telling farmers, not helping them on to the badger culling bandwaggon.2012 October 8, John Wilson, “A cull won't solve our farming problem, so stop blaming the badgers”, in The Independent, London…. From the entry bandwaggon
  • The post, culling online chatter from supremacist sites, said hate groups were increasingly worried that law enforcement authorities would use Mr.2008 August 27, Kirk Johnson, Eric Lichtblau, “Officials See No ‘Credible Threat’ to Obama in Racist Rants”, in New York Times. From the entry stalking horse
  • This is Bridgewallace Avenue and I don't see any time for such waddle, forespreading backspraddlers, human agent culls.2000, Clark Coolidge, Alien Tatters. From the entry forespread
  • A visual inspection at this point culls out the pieces which have been misforged, badly trimmed or require additional tumbling.1977, Dan Poynter, The Parachute Manual: A Technical Treatise on the Parachute, page 95. From the entry misforge
  • Each plot held 10 cull trees so that 60 Australian toon and 40 tropical ash trees were treated.1973, Gerald A. Walters, Herbert L. Wick, Coppicing to convert cull Australian toon, tropical ash to acceptable trees. From the entry toon
  • There were many human interest stories culled from the police-court news or from anything else that came to the city desk.1940, Helen Hughes, News and the Human Interest Story, page 21. From the entry city desk
  • Despite the widespread use of vampiricide for at least 50 years, astonishingly few investigators have tested whether culling vampire bats reduces rabies virus cases in livestock.2023 April 24, Tonie Rocke, Daniel Streicker, Ariel Leon, “Management of Vampire Bats and Rabies: […]”, in Charles E. Rupprecht, editor…. From the entry vampiricide
  • The Crown Estate confirmed today they would allow shooters taking part in one of two pilot culls to access Crown land in west Somerset. . . .2013 September 21, Charlie Cooper, “Crown Estate permits badger cull on its land”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 26 Aug 2014. From the entry crown land
  • Sometimes two men oystered from the same boat or took along a son or younger brother to cull oysters (separate those of legal size from undersized ones and shell).1986, Carolyn Ellis, Fisher Folk: Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry oyster
  • An album of songs culled from the program has made a high-speed chase up the record charts, selling more than 3 million copies in a month.1985 November 11, “Business Notes Entertainment”, in Time, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2008. From the entry record chart
  • Hydrostructionists, for this reason, have shifted to the use of imperfect concrete pipe, which is culled from construction damaged items or factory mismolds, with a great deal of success.1976, Water Spectrum - Volumes 8-11, page 32. From the entry mismold
  • So our list of the Ten Worst is carefully culled from the trashery of Doctors' Wives or The Seven Minutes or Percy and The Statue . . . .1972 Jan. 3, Judith Crist, "Movies," New York Magazine, p. 47 (Google preview). From the entry trashery
  • Long lists resulting from the listing technique will often become short poems after you and the student writer's classmates help cull out the unnecessaries, the ungainlies, and the unworthies.1966, Stephen Dunning, Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Poetry, Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, →OCLC, page 32. From the entry ungainly

Meaning of cull

  1. verb To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  2. verb To gather, collect.
  3. verb To select (animals, plants, etc) from a group and then kill (them) in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.

Full definition of cull

Questions about cull in a sentence

How do you use cull in a sentence?
Cull is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The company culled more employees this month.”
What is a short sentence with cull?
“The company culled more employees this month.”
What does cull mean?
Cull means to pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).

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