How to Use circumcise in a Sentence

circumcise

verb
Definition of circumcisenext
  • The amount of skin from the time you are circumcised to when you are restored is an index card.
    — Alexa Tsoulis-Reay, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Added to the post were images of young girls being circumcised.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 10 Jan. 2018
  • For much of the 20th century, the consensus was to circumcise.
    — Zoe Greenberg, New York Times, 25 July 2017
  • My brother was born in 1995 and circumcised in the living room, under an airbrushed painting of a Navajo woman.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • In fact, only about 58 percent babies born today in the United States are circumcised.
    — Vanessa Marin, Allure, 13 Sep. 2018
  • The growth factor used in this case is foreskin — harvested and extracted from the stem cells of a Korean newborn's circumcised foreskin.
    — Samantha Sasso, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • As an initiation rite, young men are circumcised with a spear tip then sent into the wilderness for weeks, during which time infection often sets in.
    — Michael Harthorne, Fox News, 25 May 2017
  • The youths, known as abakhwetha, are first circumcised without anesthetic, before being sent away from their village and into the bush, with minimal supplies and wrapped in a blanket.
    — Tim Spector, CNN, 5 July 2017
  • Some uncircumcised men and people with penises decide to get circumcised as adults.
    — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
  • There’s a plotline in which an 18-year-old Russian Jew gets circumcised, and another in which a pair of Beverly Hills stoner hairdressers spend an entire episode making crank calls.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 23 June 2017
  • In addition to ramping up treatment, the country also has seen big increases in men opting to be circumcised, a proven way to lower the risk of becoming infected by the AIDS virus.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 24 July 2017
  • There are various reasons why people might decide to circumcise their babies.
    — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
  • Experts estimate that 38 percent of men worldwide are circumcised, half of them for religious reasons.
    — Martin Selsoe Sorensen, New York Times, 2 June 2018
  • The symbolic pinprick is modeled on the Jewish tradition when a non-Jewish child has been secularly circumcised and then converts to Judaism.
    — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Experts estimate that 38 percent of men worldwide are circumcised, half for religious reasons.
    — Martin Selsoe Sorensen, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
  • But government ministers have reacted with dismay to the prospect of debating another potential world first: a ban on circumcising boys.
    — Martin Selsoe Sorensen, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
  • After posting a photo of her kids with a pelican, Pink deleted the original post after a barrage of people criticized her for circumcising her son, who was pictured without a diaper.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2019
  • What's the difference between a circumcised and uncircumcised penis?
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Terry Brazier, aged 70, went into Leicester Royal Infirmary for a bladder procedure known as a cystoscopy but was mistaken for another patient by hospital staff and circumcised.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Some newborn babies in certain Jewish communities have died from herpes infections passed along by ultra-Orthodox practitioners who use their mouths in circumcising infant boys.
    — Maggie Fox /, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2018

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