How to Use circumcise in a Sentence

circumcise

verb

• Added to the post were images of young girls being circumcised.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 10 Jan. 2018
• 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
• In this case, parents can stress there is no need to get circumcised because of peer pressure.
  — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
• During class, Zamora asked the friend whether he was circumcised, the report said.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
• The boys will be circumcised and named about a week after they are discharged from the hospital, Rad says.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• That study showed a higher likelihood of being diagnosed with autism among that group than among those who hadn’t been circumcised.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2025
• When Alex, my oldest child, was born, a friend who wasn’t Jewish suggested that he not be circumcised.
  — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
• For much of the 20th century, the consensus was to circumcise.
  — Zoe Greenberg, New York Times, 25 July 2017
• The very fact that photos were never processed or released was proof enough that the man was indeed circumcised and hence a Muslim.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
• There are various reasons why people might decide to circumcise their babies.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 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
• However, the baby’s health allegedly took a turn for the worse after he was circumcised the evening of April 14.
  — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• In fact, only about 58 percent babies born today in the United States are circumcised.
  — Vanessa Marin, Allure, 13 Sep. 2018
• Baldoni admitted to telling Lively that he was circumcised while discussing her pregnancy.
  — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Dec. 2025
• My brother, Peter was born in Budapest after the war and my father was adamantly against him being circumcised.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 22 May 2024
• 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
• They could have been medically circumcised at an early age, but cultural pressures mean that many prefer the traditional way.
  — Mogomotsi Magome, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
• They could have been medically circumcised at an early age, but cultural pressures mean that many prefer the traditional way.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
• The man himself might have argued forcefully that the one didn’t prove the other, that many Muslims in his hometown never bothered to circumcise their children.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Experts estimate that 38 percent of men worldwide are circumcised, half for religious reasons.
  — Martin Selsoe Sorensen, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
• Kennedy also said children circumcised shortly after birth have twice the rate of autism because they are given Tylenol for pain relief following the procedure.
  — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Oct. 2025
• Kennedy also mentioned a Danish study from 2015 that concluded that boys who are circumcised may have a greater risk of developing autism.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2025
• Because God commanded that males must be circumcised, for instance, Mintz requires that male candidates be free of foreskin prior to conversion.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
• Hunter’s relative, Adam, who was living in Warsaw with false papers, found a way to hide the fact that he was circumcised from a landlord who accused him of being Jewish.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2024
• The New Zealand Herald reports that the patient was bandaged and didn’t realize he’d been fully circumcised until days after he was discharged.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Some communities routinely circumcise infant boys for religious or cultural reasons.
  — al, 8 May 2021