On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Circumcised. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Circumcised in a sentence
Circumcised meaning
- Of a man, having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
- Of a woman, having had the clitoris, prepuce, or labia excised.
Using Circumcised
- The main meaning on this page is: Of a man, having had the foreskin of the penis excised. | Of a woman, having had the clitoris, prepuce, or labia excised.
- In the example corpus, circumcised often appears in combinations such as: be circumcised, was circumcised, were circumcised.
Context around Circumcised
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 13 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Circumcised
- In this selection, "circumcised" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, medically, child, first, xhosa, determined and men stand out and add context to how "circumcised" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include to be circumcised and a medically circumcised xhosa man. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "circumcised" sits close to words such as aayog, aghast and agitate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with circumcised
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Abraham, too, was circumcised when he moved into Canaan. (9 words)
Why was it his call to decide when to be circumcised? (11 words)
And one who had to be circumcised after an energetic evening. (11 words)
Adult circumcision In recent years, the circumcision of adult Jews who were not circumcised as infants has become more common than previously. citation In such cases, the brit milah will be done at the earliest date that can be arranged. (40 words)
Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, agreed in Jacob's name to permit the marriage as long as all the men of Shechem first circumcised themselves, ostensibly to unite the children of Jacob in Abraham's covenant of familial harmony. (40 words)
Rituals across societies, especially those marking changes in identity — such as young Masai men who sleep in the wilderness and are then circumcised before they are inducted as a new class of warriors — have a similar structure. (37 words)
Why was it his call to decide when to be circumcised? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
When he first fled, two police returned him to those who had circumcised him. citation In another case, a medically circumcised Xhosa man was forcibly recircumcised by his father and community leaders.
If one is not circumcised, one remains a "boy" and is forbidden from participating in communal decisions and social events.
The tell-all memoir also, for some reason, apparently reveals that the prince was circumcised as a child, despite rumours to the contrary.
Bengali police and the Pakistani army frequently stopped men, stripped them naked to check whether they were circumcised or not, and asked them to recite from the Koran.
Those deemed to be suspicious were ordered to lower their trousers to show whether or not they were circumcised.
Why was it his call to decide when to be circumcised?
Here, however, this is not the case for he has already been circumcised and the requirement is only that there be dam bris alone.
In Paul’s day that meant the leaders wanted them to be circumcised.
In West Pokot, some girls were circumcised and may have been married off.
She used the opportunity to travel to and employ the skills of a Jewish mohel - a Jew trained in the practice of circumcision - to get the child circumcised, determined he conform to her Nigerian Christian beliefs.
Zeldis has a theory as to why: “The majority of circumcised men tell themselves it was good for them.
And one who had to be circumcised after an energetic evening.
Rituals across societies, especially those marking changes in identity — such as young Masai men who sleep in the wilderness and are then circumcised before they are inducted as a new class of warriors — have a similar structure.
Ronald, a Tiv man from Benue state, has been living a forced life of celibacy due to a medical condition after his genital got twisted when he was being circumcised as a child.
Abraham, too, was circumcised when he moved into Canaan.
Abraham was "an hundred years old", when his son whom he named Isaac was born; and he circumcised him when he was eight days old.
Adult circumcision In recent years, the circumcision of adult Jews who were not circumcised as infants has become more common than previously. citation In such cases, the brit milah will be done at the earliest date that can be arranged.
Believers are one in Christ, not divided between circumcised and uncircumcised, slave and free, and so on.
Children went without clothing until maturity, at about age 12, and at this age males were circumcised and had their heads shaved.
Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, agreed in Jacob's name to permit the marriage as long as all the men of Shechem first circumcised themselves, ostensibly to unite the children of Jacob in Abraham's covenant of familial harmony.
Common combinations with circumcised
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- be circumcised 8×
- was circumcised 6×
- were circumcised 6×
- not circumcised 4×
- circumcised as 4×
- circumcised and 4×
- been circumcised 3×
- circumcised in 3×
- circumcised him 2×
- circumcised citation 2×