How to Use cull in a Sentence

cull

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  • The town issued hunting licenses in order to cull the deer population.
  • He culls his herd annually.
  • The roadside dead tend to be culled from the ranks of the urban, the resilient, the ubiquitous.
    — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Families feed bread to geese in the same cities that cull them.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Tens of millions of chickens have died or been culled in the U.S. alone since 2022.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Back in 2020, Denmark moved to cull millions of farmed mink.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Time to cull that stack of 2023 books and decide whether to plunge right into the new season.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2024
  • While DJing, James would cull sound bits from obscure 45-r.p.m.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The predators play an important role in culling sick elk and deer.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2023
  • These ideas culled from our Recipe Finder tick a lot of those boxes.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The field has already been culled some, and likely will be reduced more so in the future.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Recently, South Africa culled 7.5 million chickens to stop the spread of the virus.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The top picks in our current roundup were culled from more than 30 models tested over the last five years.
    — Lynn Redmile and Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Many of them have been culled from the brand’s extensive archives, which boast over 750 scents.
    — ELLE, 2 June 2023
  • Yet, experts say, culling bears is far from the best way to prevent future tragedies.
    — Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The need to cull chickens at such a large scale has reduced supply, which has driven up the price of eggs.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The duo culled tracks from its debut album, Good Lies, which arrived in May.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But what cycling does have is reams of real-time data culled from the riders.
    — Quartz Creative For The Ey Organization, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Moline's farm had to cull tens of thousands of turkeys after the flu got into one of his barns.
    — CBS News, 17 May 2022
  • Part of the pregame routine should include music culled from the preferences of players, a soundtrack to warm up to.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Another change was culling two contestants in the first 10 minutes of episode one.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
  • For the Combs fake, the scammers likely culled words and phrases from the singer’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
  • Hong Kong plans to cull 2,000 hamsters over coronavirus fears.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The boyish campaigns and clothes cull together some kind of hazy, dream-like tribute to Venice Beach and skater culture.
    — Vogue Runway, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Learn from the best and cull inspiration from the timeless bathroom lighting ideas ahead.
    — Alicia Mies, Good Housekeeping, 12 July 2022
  • Read full article The figures were culled from forms the hospitals recently filed with the IRS for 2021.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The Fed has argued that higher rates could slow the labor market by culling vacant job openings.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • The price of eggs has skyrocketed due to an outbreak of the avian flu that has caused poultry farmers to cull millions of birds from the nation’s flocks.
    — George Anderson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Some American farmers who could not get their products into the hands of consumers were forced to dump milk in their fields and cull their herds.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Lufthansa will cull the flights due to a one-day walkout from ground crew at its two biggest airports, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
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cull

2 of 2 noun
  • Project managers had hoped the palm cull, which began in 2019, would be done by the end of this year.
    — Kenneth R. Weiss, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2020
  • In Rome, the cull that began in late June is soon set to shift into high gear.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 17 July 2022
  • The statement didn’t say when the outbreak occurred, or when the cull happened.
    — Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • The cull was good for peatlands, too, but that was just a happy byproduct.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2022
  • For now, the aerial culls are the main, if uneasy, way to handle unruly camels.
    — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The cull removed 47 deer at Van Ooyen Whitetails in Antigo.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2022
  • Before the cull began, the country had three times as many minks as people.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The cull is already under way at many firms, with job cuts jumping the most on record in the three months through August.
    — David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • But when the government announced a cull of 2,000 pet hamsters, a line was crossed.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
  • This led to the cull of almost 1.2 million pigs to stop the spread of the virus, which is highly contagious and fatal in pigs.
    — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
  • There had been some sort of soda cull, and Diet Dr Pepper Cherry had not made the cut.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 14 July 2019
  • If the cull goes forward, the meat from the deer will likely have to be destroyed, because most are infected with CWD.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The reasoning for the cull was to prevent the spread of Lyme disease, which can be caused by bacteria in deer ticks.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The mass culls last year also sent the price of eggs sky-rocketing, contributing to the global food crisis.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The Netherlands, Spain and Sweden have also reported cases linked to the farms, prompting the cull of thousands of minks.
    — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The university's first and only other cull was in 2015.
    — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2018
  • In the sixth episode of the new season: ankle cleavage, dinosaur culls, and 300-year investing horizons.
    — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Authorities were looking to ease import quotas and bring in eggs from abroad to head off an egg shortage due to the cull.
    — Reuters, CNN, 28 Dec. 2021
  • But the mass culls have stripped some staff of confidence in their employer’s leadership.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Danish police said the cull of about 17 million mink would take several days.
    — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The man and his son were participating in a large cull hunt at the time, Svenska Dagbladet reports.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But even as restaurants start to reopen, the supply of venison would still far outstrip demand if a cull were on the scale that advocates seek.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
  • There is no suggestion Britain is planning any kind of widespread cull of passports.
    — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Meanwhile, farmers are facing the likely cull of millions of animals and mass graves could soon be dug across the heartland.
    — Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The cull took place to keep the goats from infringing on a vulnerable bighorn sheep population.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Government leaders held a board meeting on Dec. 11 to discuss the animals, and the cull was approved for Wednesday.
    — Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The Domains team seemingly survived the cull, but as this announcement confirms, only for a few months.
    — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
  • But so did attacks on humans, which in turn triggered croc culls that again threatened the animal’s revival.
    — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Luber culls data from what’s sold through StockX, and from a number of other platforms where transactions go down, like eBay.
    — Cam Wolf, GQ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • And virtue, his central category, gets defined—in a line that Meyer’s abridgment culls—in terms that look suspiciously circular.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023

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