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Arthroscopic knee surgery takes 30 to 60 minutes in the operating room, and the patients spend a few hours recovering in a surgery center or in a hospital outpatient department.—
Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal,
CBS News,
13 July 2026 After his father was repeatedly brought to an operating room at a hospital in Kandahar and turned back without surgery, Amiri posted a video describing the ordeal.—
Fatima Faizi,
NPR,
10 July 2026 Facelifts, traditional Brazilian butt lifts and other surgical cosmetic procedures that require patients to go to an operating room are generally done by plastic surgeons.—
Michelle Marchante
july 10,
Miami Herald,
10 July 2026 In early June, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was wheeled into an operating room at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
9 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for operating room