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"Neuter" in a Sentence (34 examples)
German has a gender system. Every noun has a gender: masculine, feminine, or neuter.
To prevent unwanted breeding, many pet owners will choose to neuter their pets.
It's time to neuter the cat.
Russian nouns can be masculine, feminine, or neuter.
In Dutch Yiddish the neuter definite article dos was replaced by es, the third-person neuter pronoun, after the Dutch word het which also fills both functions.
It's time to neuter the dog.
I don't neuter them.
But if I could, by Him that gave me life, I would attach you all and make you stoop Unto the sovereign mercy of the king; But since I cannot, be it known to you I do remain as neuter.
This is certain, that in all our Undertakings God will be either our Friend or our Enemy. For Providence never stands neuter […]
[A]s their firſt Security, they did all they could to foment War betwixt the neighbouring Negroes, remaining Neuter themselves, by which Means, thoſe who were overcome conſtantly fled to them for Protection, otherwiſe they must be either killed or made Slaves.
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A relay race that does not match teams but integrates the fastest and the slowest in one race against the most neuter of all adversaries — time.
a neuter noun
the neuter definite article
a neuter termination
the neuter gender
Slaves were given short, often neuter, names.
In The Cook and the Carpenter, Arnold used the device of a neuter pronoun "na," instead of assigning gender to the characters.
a neuter verb
[…] I should never have anticipated that natural selection could have been efficient in so high a degree, had not the case of these neuter insects convinced me of the fact.
Rich girls stayed home and got married and then "put out" occasionally, but only as their wifely duty. Prior to the sexual revolution in the 1960s southern belles were the most neuter members of the human race[.]
the information i acquire may help me finalize my decision to become a neuter. let me say that castration is (for me) in no way a short term goal. it's something i've heard about, thought about, and believe may benefit me personally.
I WOULD SOONER BECOME A NEUTER no seriously tell me where the libido-suppressing pills are
You can change yourself into a neuter, but you can't become the opposite sex.
Well, we've had a young (probably around a year old, but I'm guessing), intact (he's scheduled for a neuter, but it's one of those "when we get a spare minute" type of things) male Shih-tzu/shih-tzu mix come in about a month ago.
But if you should beecome eyther a counterfayt Protestant, or a perverse Papist, or a colde and carelesse newter (which God forbid) the harme could not be expressed which you should do to your native Cuntrie.
Friends, neuters, enemies, all are as one, to make a fool a madman is their sport […].
Make one do, or act (to), fare fare, fare agire, with an accusative when the verb is a neuter, and with a dative when otherwise.
Compound verbs other than those already spoken of whereby neuters are made active, are very rare, as I have already hinted under the head of nouns.
In all the Apachean languages, verbs are divided into two major categories, neuters and actives, each of which may be further divided into intransitives, transitives, and passives.
The neutering extends to Believe’s guest stars, with warm-and-fuzzy verses from Ludacris (“I love everything about you / You’re imperfectly perfect”), Big Sean (“I don’t know if this makes sense, but you’re my hallelujah”), Nicki Minaj (who at least squeaks a “bitches” into her verse), and especially Drake, whose desire to hug and kiss the object of his affection on “Right Here” is reminiscent of The Red Hot Chili Peppers on Krusty’s Comeback Special.
Congress neutered the bill by adding an exception for big corporations.
Here wrangling, bitty conflicts neutered change.
This collusion with the forces of corporate oppression neuters the press, Trump's critics and the Democratic Party.
At their religious services Am Tikva makes all attempts to de-genderize the liturgy by neutering English nouns and pronouns and, when Hebrew is used, by using both masculine and the feminine forms of the language.
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