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 opens your skull and the area of your brain where the aneurysm is.
    Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 23 July 2025
  • In the heart of the outbreak, a trauma surgeon travelled to the edge and back.
    Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • 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 surgeon swatted away a fly, then held the wound open to show me the bone’s sharp, broken ends.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • One cut was deep and close to the spine, according to his surgeon.
    Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The teen, who was buried in her cap and gown, wanted to be a trauma surgeon.
    Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Of course, past roles alone are not enough to indict a guest-star surgeon.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Your surgeon may be able to point you to someone who does great work.
    Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 5 May 2021
  • 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
  • The retired Navy surgeon and his wife sat through a 5-day trial.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 22 July 2021
  • 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
  • Some jobs do have to be in person, say a plumber or a surgeon (mostly).
    Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Rick Yelverton, 63, is a surgeon in Jackson, Miss., and one of Howard’s clients.
    Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News, 8 July 2021
  • Her surgeon said her chances of getting there were 50-50.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Had there been a serious problem that the surgeon failed to recognize, the LLM would have proven lifesaving.
    Robert Pearl, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • His father, Jacob, was a barber surgeon, and there’s a wonderful story about one of Durang’s first performances as a teenager.
    Chava Pearl Lansky, JSTOR Daily, 30 July 2025

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