How to Use attending in a Sentence

attending

noun
  • And that there are rules for the two attending.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Things can’t run without our labor, but the hospital also views us as cheap—cheaper than attendings.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The family was later told only that an unexpected event had occurred, not that the attending had been out of the room.
    Sandra G. Boodman, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2017
  • Trying to gossip about an attending with an attending is, indeed, bold, but that’s our Santos!
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2026
  • White opposition to her attending was so intense that federal marshals had to escort her in and out of the school every day.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And the footage might remind fans of a thing or two from the show's original pilot — including a resident who's already slept with an attending.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
  • And after the surgery, the attending can walk the resident through a recording of the procedure, a sort of play-by-play for the operating room.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Every member of this person’s care team—from nurses and social workers to residents and attendings—nodded in agreement.
    Zoe Adams, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Again left without any available attendings, our residents and members of the First Day Club are left to figure this out on their own.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
  • For example, over 95 percent of attendings observed in cardiothoracic surgery were men.
    Orly Nadell Farber, STAT, 2 July 2018
  • Sadly, Devon begins to bleed out when Schmidt chooses not to wait on an attending, as the method teaches, and begins dissection by himself.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Patrick also discussed the impact Swift attending games has on younger generations who may not have been football fans before — including his own daughter.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • And Santos is already tossing back a five-hour energy drink while beginning to annoy both of her attendings with her inability to multitask?
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Robotic systems might have two control consoles, but attendings rarely grant residents simultaneous control.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
  • After the kid was saved, Beltran scolded the resident, reminding her not to bring her personal life into the ER — or her attending’s.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Your return in season 20 was designed to bring back some of the joy, levity and love for teaching that the attendings at Grey Sloan were desperately missing.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • At the time, the attending offered a Stage 1 colorectal cancer diagnosis and recommended surgery to remove the tumor.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Some of us suspected this was coming last year when Jules got all starstruck over the cardio attendings and later told Winston off for being dismissive about professional cuddlers.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • But also on the secondary part, Kim Jong-un recognizes the symbolism of his attending of the summit is as complicated as some of the concessions that he might be expected to make.
    Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • Jules starts her tenure at Grey Sloan by honoring the long-standing tradition of interns sleeping with attendings (Atticus Lincoln).
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Met Gala, which happens on the first Monday of May, is not only a huge event for the celebs attending but is also monumental for the fashion designers who are creating their looks.
    Brittany Natale, Redbook, 1 May 2023
  • Such jobs include roles in business management, teaching, customer care, legal work, health care, social media management, consulting, sales, flight attending, public relations and politics.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024
  • Pro-government accounts, meanwhile, showed supporters dressed in red attending rallies that featured an inflatable balloon of the deceased former President Hugo Chavez.
    Nathan Crooks, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2017
  • Then, on Sunday, Syria convened an unannounced but highly anticipated opening of the first post-revolution Parliament, with President Ahmed al-Sharaa attending.
    Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2026
  • Nearly everything The Pitt revealed about Al-Hashimi has been filtered through Robby’s reaction to it, from her ethnic name to her time with international NGOs to her desire to hire two attendings for the daytime shift.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026

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