Example sentences for: neuter

How can you use “neuter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Directors of violent genre pieces like Craven (who got this mainstream gig in return for doing the Scream sequels) or Carl Franklin or Sam Raimi sometimes want so badly to belong to Establishment Hollywood--to go to the Academy Awards--that they neuter themselves.

  • But in more formal standard English inanimate objects are now referred to by the neuter pronoun it , though in other Indo-European languages that I know grammatical gender lingers as a sort of ghost of animistic gender haunting all nouns.

  • Please send some of those animal dollars our way and neuter these poor neglected creatures ...

  • These machines are pampered by de-personalizing everything they are fed, converting Carl or Clara to husband or wife or simply to spouse, my son Frank and daughter Kate to my children , and Lewis and Clark to the Lessor (the singular of course including the plural and the masculine the feminine or even the neuter, should a party be of undetermined sex).

  • One inference to be drawn from this might be that the choice of neuter is inevitable since the gender of most English nouns is inscrutable.


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