How to Use cull in a Sentence

cull

1 of 2 verb

• The town issued hunting licenses in order to cull the deer population.
• He culls his herd annually.
• He's seen as a weakling, and he must be culled from the clan.
  — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
• And my life has been culled down to the bare minimum.
  — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
• Families feed bread to geese in the same cities that cull them.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• The predators play an important role in culling sick elk and deer.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2023
• Despite the shift away from hunting from the air, many still don’t want to see the deer culled.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
• In most economies, the market would sort out this mess by culling the weakest players.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2025
• Yet, experts say, culling bears is far from the best way to prevent future tragedies.
  — Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
• These ideas culled from our Recipe Finder tick a lot of those boxes.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 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
• The field has already been culled some, and likely will be reduced more so in the future.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2023
• The exorbitant cast can be culled.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 Dec. 2025
• Egg prices fell a bit, fewer sick poultry flocks were culled on farms and officials took a breath.
  — Christian Orozco, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
• His staff, culled from a hodgepodge of local law-enforcement groups, is green.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
• Egg prices fell a bit, fewer sick poultry flocks were culled on farms, and officials took a breath.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In March 2022, 21 million birds were culled.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
• The roadside dead tend to be culled from the ranks of the urban, the resilient, the ubiquitous.
  — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2023
• The court’s dismissal paves the way for the flock of around 330 ostriches to be culled.
  — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
• But the troops won’t be culling the bears – they’re not allowed to under Japanese law.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
• And it‘s now time to cull some Democrats from the dense field of candidates for governor.
  — George Skelton, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
• Many of them have been culled from the brand’s extensive archives, which boast over 750 scents.
  — ELLE, 2 June 2023
• Fundrise culls its data from both public records and private databases.
  — Diana Olick, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Fuller was able to cull an impressive shortlist from which the final group members were chosen.
  — Michele Amabile Angermiller, Variety, 20 July 2022
• So what else can be lost alongside the military culling diversity from its ranks?
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
• Learn from the best and cull inspiration from the timeless bathroom lighting ideas ahead.
  — Alicia Mies, Good Housekeeping, 12 July 2022

cull

2 of 2 noun

• The cull was good for peatlands, too, but that was just a happy byproduct.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2022
• Before the cull began, the country had three times as many minks as people.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• For now, the aerial culls are the main, if uneasy, way to handle unruly camels.
  — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 17 Jan. 2020
• The statement didn’t say when the outbreak occurred, or when the cull happened.
  — Bloomberg.com, 10 May 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
• Last year, Japan even deployed its own military to help cull bear numbers.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 May 2026
• This bass species had the genes for a range of survival strategies before the culls started, Zarri says.
  — Martin J. Kernan, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2025
• 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
• There is no suggestion Britain is planning any kind of widespread cull of passports.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2021
• 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 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
• Each has contributed $150,000 to the cull.
  — Ted Williams, Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2026
• The goal is to cull overpopulation.
  — Elle Meyers, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
• 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 when the government announced a cull of 2,000 pet hamsters, a line was crossed.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Danish police and soldiers were being mobilized to assist with the cull.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2020
• Farmers complained that a compensation agreement wasn’t in place when the cull began.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
• The cull took place to keep the goats from infringing on a vulnerable bighorn sheep population.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 10 Feb. 2020
• 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 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
• 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
• While professionals are commissioned year-round to carry out the cull, once a year the public is invited in on the act.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 May 2026
• 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
• There are also concerns that the cleaner cull could create genuine health and safety issues for the thousands of staff who work at the building.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2026
• Consumers, too, have taken a hit as the culls contribute to soaring egg prices, though that may be due in part to opportunism from egg suppliers.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• The Domains team seemingly survived the cull, but as this announcement confirms, only for a few months.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
• James said if dingoes are ultimately found to be responsible, Piper would not have supported a cull.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026