How to Use doctor in a Sentence

doctor

1 of 2 noun

• How long will you be at the doctor?
• I saw her at the doctor's last week.
• He needed medicine but refused to go to a doctor.
• Most of the faculty members at this college are doctors in their fields.
• She was under doctor's orders not to return to work.
• Dr. Smith, can you explain the exam requirements again?
• For the first time, Teske felt like a doctor had all the time in the world.
  — Sadia Rafiquddin, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023
• Broadus, the youngest of the famed rapper’s four children, did not reveal what her doctors told her about the cause of the stroke.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• As doctors and nurses flooded in, the screen faded to black.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 18 June 2023
• Her son and son-in-law, an emergency-room doctor, crouched at his side.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend.
  — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
• But this time the state has vowed to use part of it to pay doctors more for treating Medicaid patients.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
• Looking ahead, the podcaster and author’s doctors have told her to rest for five to six weeks.
  — Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• If neither of those tips works, speak with a doctor to determine what to do next.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 31 Jan. 2024
• Other doctors did not want to discuss such painful trade-offs.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• But a Sharp Grossmont doctor pronounced him dead over the phone around 8:15 a.m. after consulting with the medics at the scene.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
• As a result, doctors are having to think hard about when and whether to start treatment with a drug in short supply.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2024
• That player is pulled off the field, and a doctor conducts an assessment.
  — Jeffrey Tomik, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• He was cleared by doctors to resume practice on Nov. 30.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• So the more a doctor or surgery center charges, the more consumers typically pay.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
• The freshman guard was cleared by doctors to return to basketball at the end of November.
  — Rishikesh Rajagopalan, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• Lots of recreation areas and a high ratio of doctors' offices to people make this place a haven for retirees.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2024
• A day after the close friends’ release, safe in the arms of family and doctors, Hila was still whispering to Emily.
  — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
• Kling wanted to be induced and deliver her third child with her doctor in Black River Falls.
  — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
• While people in jail get billed $25 for being booked and $15 per doctor’s visit, many low-income inmates don’t pay.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
• Also, finding the right dose for ingesting pumpkin seed oil may require a trip to your doctor.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 27 July 2023
• For rape, if the rape is reported to law enforcement or to a public health agency or doctor within 45 days.
  — USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• To treat syncope, doctors could replace or remove genes related to the vagus nerve, per NBC News.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• If you were exposed to measles, contact your doctor for guidance, which may include getting the MMR vaccine.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• To stop the bleeding, a doctor, who had no access to antiseptic or anesthesia, heated the blade of a kitchen knife and cauterized the wound.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024

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doctor

2 of 2 verb

• He had time to doctor his wounds.
• I think somebody doctored the punch.
• She doctored the sick child until the physician arrived.
• They were accused of doctoring the company's financial records.
• This strikes me as a good sauce to doctor up with some meat or sausage.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
• Mat-Su has twice the number of patients to doctor ratio then the rest of Alaska or the rest of the U.S.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Fields offers more than a dozen ways to doctor up a box of Jiffy cornbread mix.
  — Nicole Hvidsten, Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
• Byrum denied that happened and proved to Gran that the photo was doctored.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 30 Sep. 2019
• To be clear, the video was not doctored in the sense that it was digitally altered.
  — Robert Farley, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2020
• The siblings made sure their dad, and later their mom, didn’t go alone to doctor visits.
  — Dallas News, 18 May 2022
• Bijan Stephen has two more experts to say that yes, the Acosta video was doctored.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 10 Nov. 2018
• So do your homework: Read the reviews (but keep in mind that they, too, can be doctored or deleted).
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• Between each loop, runners will eat, doctor their feet, maybe steal a quick nap.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 26 May 2018
• The video was doctored so the victim had a CNN logo imposed over his head and was also edited to add sound.
  — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
• The search is on by major league umpires for sticky stuff that pitchers might use to doctor baseballs.
  — Stephen Hawkins, ajc, 21 June 2021
• In light of the Astros’ mess, the milder forms of cheating — such as pitchers doctoring the ball — sound pretty tame.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 21 Feb. 2020
• Try doctoring old scrapes with both estrus and tarsal as a challenge to other bucks.
  — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2019
• For the mayonnaise, try doctoring up your favorite brand with the recipes below.
  — Ann Maloney, nola.com, 5 June 2019
• His chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, doctored an email to convince an agency ethics lawyer to approve a $4,300 flight for Shulkin's wife, the report found.
  — David S. Cloud, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The poster doctored an image from an epic motorcycle ride in the Bond flick to replace Brosnan’s face with Todt’s, while Yeoh appears on the back of the bike.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 31 July 2023
• Nichols doctored bank records to hide the nature of her purchases, officials say.
  — Sarah Hager, Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Almost anything can be doctored with a little — or a lot — of heat, depending on your taste.
  — Becky Krystal, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
• Arellano quit her job and spends her days taking the baby to doctor’s appointments, meetings with DCFS and on walks in her stroller.
  — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 20 June 2019
• Sometimes there’s nothing to doctor, but the placebo effect of a Band-Aid cannot be overstated.
  — Rachel Walker, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2019
• Mom doctored us up with pineapple juice for scratchy throats and sinus infections.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024
• Afghan officials doctored photos of the meeting to suggest that it had been held in Kabul instead of Bagram, which is about 12 miles away.
  — Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• There also was evidence that the company produced videos of its trucks that were doctored to hide their flaws.
  — Larry Neumeister, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• A number of emails from Francis that were used in the case were also doctored, a motion filed by the defense attorneys alleged.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• It was doctored from a Teen Vogue video, in which González tears up a shooting target, surrounded by other young activists.
  — Katie Reilly, Time, 26 Mar. 2018
• In the footage, the blonde female flight attendant’s face is blurred and voice is doctored, presumably to conceal her identity.
  — Janine Puhak, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024