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Definition
to select from among many — usually to reject- What he had burned had been nothing more than an illusion with a title page on top , blank pages interspersed with written rejects and culls.Stephen King -- Misery
- Cull me, Marcia had written.Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
- The seriousness of such an occasion is directly proportionate to the number of bodily emissions you are asked to cull for analysis.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- They were brandishing crude weapons culled from the debris of construction: jagged shards of glass, torn-off chunks of rebar, concrete blocks.Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
- Cut off my hair, took my clothes, and put me in a pen outside with the others for a culling.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- With the candles she'd finished boxed for transport to her shop, she began to set the ones she'd culled out on shelves.Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
- They use the plagues to cull the population of weak genes, the same way the Trials pick out the strongest.Marie Lu -- Legend
- "Hey, cull," he called in loud voice, "ain't ye goin' to cough up a drink?"Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
- The term comes from the fourteenth-century French trier, "to pick or cull," and was first used to describe the sorting of wool according to its quality.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- The following is a sample culled from fifteen minutes of conversation between two young men aged about eighteen in June 2003.Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
- Be nice if he culled some Freys too.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- They'd stand by and watch the culling.Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory
- He culled them, sorted out what he would think when he got up there-he would allow them to blossom once he had climbed up the stairs.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- Her rising rate of breathing gave way to moans and sighs and woman-sounds that culled forth a measure of something sweet and taut within me.Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
- "The whole city is cull of idiots thinking they've been containing the virus.James Dashner -- The Death Cure
- The word is well culled, chose, sweet, and apt, I do assure you, sir; I do assure.William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost
- From what she culled from the media she built a picture of its participants.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- ROXANE: Must I then bid thee mount to cull this flower?Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
- He had spread every scrap of information he could cull from the files to every post in Europe, placed agents in the Paris-London-Amsterdam axis on alert.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- "Sometimes diseased plants must be culled to preserve the whole garden," said Valentine.Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass