How to Use declaw in a Sentence

declaw

verb

• We had our cats declawed.
• The bobcat weighs 14 pounds and has been declawed on all four paws.
  — Howard Ludwig, Daily Southtown, 30 Mar. 2018
• My last cat was declawed when she was neutered, and this was never a problem.
  — Jane Sykes, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2026
• My last cat was declawed when she was neutered, and this was never a problem.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
• Don't get your cat declawed—give them scratching posts and mats to scratch instead.
  — Medea Giordano, Wired, 4 June 2020
• Adult tigers may be drugged or even declawed to make interaction safe.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
• Most tourists who enjoy these encounters don’t know that the adult tigers may be declawed, drugged, or both.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Cats are often declawed in an effort to prevent them from scratching.
  — Madeline Fitzgerald, Time, 5 June 2019
• Deaths have occurred when owners decide to declaw their cats themselves.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
• When the black bear was a year old, he was defanged and declawed, his mouth altered into a gummy mash of pink gums and tongue.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• There are two common arguments made for allowing cats to be declawed.
  — Hank Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
• Lawmakers are weighing a ban on the practice of declawing cats.
  — USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
• While there are catfights aplenty, most come off as perfunctory and declawed.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• One cheetah is seen getting declawed; another is dying on-camera.
  — CNN, 28 Aug. 2019
• The effort to ban cat declawing statewide goes back to 2018 with numerous bills drafted and killed.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
• Under the bill, people who violate the ban on declawing a cat could face fines of $1,000.
  — NBC News, 4 June 2019
• The statewide ban comes 22 years after the city of West Hollywood past the nation's first ban on declawing.
  — Tim Fang, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
• He had been declawed and displayed at a North Carolina roadside zoo where animals were kept in concrete pits.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
• These cat owners should not need to face relinquishment or euthanasia of their pet because the option to declaw cats is unavailable.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 23 July 2019
• Michigan may become the second state in the country, after New York, to ban the practice of declawing cats.
  — Andrea Perez Balderrama, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2020
• Some proponents of declawing say the opposite is true and cats that damage furniture or scratch children are more likely to end up in shelters.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 2023
• With its allies declawed, America has now abandoned them altogether.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2019
• Roughly 35% of American households own cats, and about one-in-five cats are declawed nationally, studies show.
  — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
• Supporters of a ban include animal welfare advocates, who say declawing is cruel.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2019
• Ban on cat declawing Declawing cats for nonmedical reasons is set to be prohibited statewide.
  — Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
• California is set to join a growing list of states banning the practice of cat declawing, under a new law taking effect in January.
  — Tim Fang, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
• Foo Foo Kitty was declawed before the Jenness family adopted the feline.
  — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Bills to ban declawing have been introduced in Michigan before, most recently in 2020, but have not been made into law.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 2023
• Unlike human nails, a cat's claws are attached to bone, so declawing a feline requires a veterinarian to slice through tendon and nerves to remove the last segment of bone in a cat's toes.
  — Fox News, 5 June 2019
• Among the more important structural features of the package are a pledge to remake the Supreme Court to declaw its emergent anti-labor majority.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2019