How to Use examination in a Sentence

examination

noun

• The victim's clothes were sent to the lab for examination.
• The police made a rigorous examination of the evidence at the crime scene.
• I have to study for the history examination.
• On closer examination, the painting appears to be a fake.
• The court ordered that the defendant undergo a psychiatric examination.
• Read excerpts here, and find The Post’s months-long examination of the road to the war in Ukraine here.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• There is also an examination of the role of a father in the film.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
• Yet they were poised to crush him, in the final examinations and then in real life.
  — Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
• The bomb squad took the device to Rodman’s Neck in the Bronx for further examination.
  — Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
• All window glass was observed to be broken at the time of the scene examination.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2024
• Much will depend on how the economy evolves over the next few months — and whether any new shocks thwart the Fed’s careful examination of the post-covid world.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• The follow-up examinations of NGC 5084 helped the team see this galaxy and its sideways black hole across a wide range of light wavelengths.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2024
• In practice, that means that accounts of wards can — and do — go years without any kind of examination.
  — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2024
• A day later, the palace announced there would be an examination into the claims.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
• In a lab examination last week, the NTSB determined the part had come apart prior to impact.
  — Dominic Gates and Sarah Grace Taylor, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2022
• That account, however, could open him up for the first time to cross examination on the witness stand.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
• An all-too-rare examination of Whiteness, in the hands of a warm and humane storyteller.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• The examination of the human cost of conflict, and of love and hope trying to thrive within it, resonates more than ever.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
• After a brief sideline examination, the Lions called for a cart to take Walker to the locker room.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2022
• There has to be a full, forensic examination of what just happened.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
• An examination revealed that the sea lion had a fresh gunshot wound in its back.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
• Perhaps the best sign for Worthy comes from a closer examination of Reid’s words.
  — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2024
• During an examination by a doctor, the teen showed no remorse for the attack and laughed when he was told about her injuries, Scott said.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 21 June 2024
• The show is a cheery examination of looming early death.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• The substance was sent to a city lab for further examination, police said.
  — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2023
• The new building will triple the size of the previous clinic’s footprint with 11 examination rooms and space for telehealth.
  — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2022
• Police said there were no obvious signs of foul play at or near the scene and are awaiting the results of a medical examination to learn the causes of death for the men.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2024
• The case was the high court’s first examination of restrictions on transgender athletes, but was not a decision on the merits of the case.
  — Laura Meckler, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The 10-episode series is a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 May 2025
• Under state law, the prosecution is allowed to retain its own experts to conduct such an examination, Hippler ruled.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 7 May 2025