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How to use eunuch in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, verb

Eunuch means a castrated man. Example: “To be gay one should not be a political eunuch.”

Examples of eunuch by meaning

nounOne that is ineffectual.

  • To be gay one should not be a political eunuch.1976 December 11, Ronnie Allen, “No Political Eunuch”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 4
  • behold the Eunuch of castrated thought2002, Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis, Methuen, →ISBN, page 40

More sentences with eunuch

  • Now there was in Shakespeare's time a pipe called the eunuch flute.2011, Christopher Welch, Six Lectures on the Recorder and Other Flutes in Relation to Literature. From the entry eunuch flute
  • Out of the blue, the chief eunuch of the zenana appears.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 84. From the entry zenana
  • Eunuchs were chiefly employed in the harems of the king, and his satraps.1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 222. From the entry satrap
  • For example, we should not dream of dwelling on the more serious functions of the caliphian eunuchs.1913, Arnold Bennett, Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People, page 76. From the entry caliphian
  • Now Miss Zaftig is circulating the story that Prof "No Brain" must be a eunuch or a robot.1980, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter VII, in The Number of the Beast, part 1, pages 61–62. From the entry zaftig
  • The four bearers, all unwhiskered eunuchs, stood in front of the chairs, their hands tucked into their sleeves, looks of disdain on their faces.2013, Mo Yan, chapter 2, in Howard Goldblatt, transl., Sandalwood Death, University of Oklahoma Press. From the entry unwhiskered
  • It's just a silly old eunuch."2004, Debbie Taylor, The Fourth Queen: A Novel. From the entry sweetkin
  • A eunuch is a negative creature.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii. From the entry beardless
  • He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300. From the entry epithalamium
  • The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.1905, Samuel Major Gardenhire, The Silence of Mrs. Harrold - Page 277. From the entry swart

Meaning of eunuch

  1. noun A castrated man.
  2. noun Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials.
  3. noun A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate.

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Questions about eunuch in a sentence

How do you use eunuch in a sentence?
Eunuch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “To be gay one should not be a political eunuch.”
What is a short sentence with eunuch?
“A eunuch is a negative creature.”
What does eunuch mean?
Eunuch means a castrated man.

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