Example sentences for: neuter

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

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

  • If, in the future, Modern Greek continues to be as hospitable to English words as it has been in the recent past, there are likely to be more and more neuter nouns with few inflections or none at all, at least until the new words have put down roots.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Twain continues: “a tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female--tomcats included.”


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