How to Use surgeon in a Sentence

surgeon

noun
  • The surgeon shaved down part of the bone to make space for the nerve.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The surgeon killed was Dr. Benjamin Mauck, the clinic said.
    Jacob Wilt, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • The surgeon has 20 seconds to play with to be able to save someone's life.
    Pierre Thomas, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The console allows students to have the same view as the lead surgeon.
    Neha Mukherjee, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The surgeon swiftly settled all the claims out of court.
    Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The surgeons have to find an artery and a vein to connect Looney's blood supply to the kidney.
    Rob Stein, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Maybe the prescription had been for the drug that had the power to give Jacob the steady hands of a surgeon.
    Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • From there, the surgeon operates on the baby, while keeping it in the uterus.
    Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Please keep the prayers coming for Scot, the surgeons, for the donor and his family who lost their loved one.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Best Friends, the 44-year-old meets with her bariatric surgeon Dr. Charles Procter for her nine month post-op check in.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
  • That was important, as the surgeon’s standing was on the edge.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The second part is told by Lena, a young surgeon and good friend of Magos who, for a time, was in love with her.
    Gabino Iglesias, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Moreover, the techniques of most surgeons, to put it bluntly, are just not that good.
    WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
  • For me, my work as a hand surgeon has put me in contact with people from all walks of life.
    Dr. Eric George, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The surgeon has spent much of the campaign in a bitter and heated fight with McCormick.
    Will Weissert, Marc Levy, Gary D. Robertson, Anchorage Daily News, 18 May 2022
  • The classy date night portrayed in the video takes a dark turn — which includes Jim Carrey as a surgeon.
    Marisa Whitaker, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • By the time the surgeon entered the operating room, the wrong leg had already been prepped.
    Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Spunky Ava, who dreams of becoming a surgeon and traveling the world, is not the kind to sit around and mope.
    Susan Young, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
  • One of the young doctors and the show’s namesake, Meredith Grey, is the daughter of a famous surgeon.
    al, 6 Oct. 2022
  • After seven to 10 days, the stitches will be removed and the wound checked by your surgeon.
    Oluseun Olufade, Verywell Health, 1 May 2024
  • Enter eye surgeon Pei-Chang Wu, whose journey of discovery serves as the spine of the piece.
    Longreads, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The surgeon turns to alcohol instead of ether when the darkness is too much.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Second, the surgeon will connect your small intestines to an opening of the pouch.
    Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Health, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Karma was twenty-five at the time, with a wife in law school and hopes of becoming a surgeon.
    Christopher McDougall and Eric Orton, Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
  • On that summer night, there was no cardiac surgeon in the building.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • At a hospital, the chief surgeon recalled a friend of his, a woman.
    James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • Marcia lives alone and has a painful crush on her surgeon, to the point of trailing him around London, hoping for a glimpse of him.
    Sara Paretsky, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
  • Previously, the 65-year-old surgeon was seen with a lighter look and a dark gray hairdo.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Human surgeons are expensive and prone to mistakes, so the big trend in the surgery room is towards robotics.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • My surgeon was able to remove two of the three during my biopsy, and that post-op pathology came back positive for cancer.
    Eldiara Doucette, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025

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