Sentence examples for to cull the from inspiring English sources
verb
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
The man knows how to cull the herd.
Indeed, the dairy industry has a cooperative effort under way to cull the herd.
"We have to cull the whales to keep the balance of nature".
Since then, they say, they have learned to cull the ideas that will not be approved.
Ms. Kira ruefully recalled when the combines arrived to cull the 1932 wheat harvest.
Instead, Mr. Balamuth said he requested the meeting to cull the pope's memories of his relatives.
Sad, Calvin explained, but necessary to cull the population and improve the herd.
Efforts are being made to cull the feline community – roughly 10 animals have recently been spayed – but progress is slow.
Many policies probably do change relatively rapidly; that would probably require the editors to "cull the herd," so to speak.
Another reason that the stakes are so high is that other efforts to cull the field have failed.
Before that sale, though, curators from the Smithsonian were allowed to cull the models to take what they wanted.
