How to Use suture in a Sentence

suture

1 of 2 noun

• The incision is closed with just a few sutures.
  — Essence, 7 Jan. 2026
• My sister had a deep cut in her forehead that would require sutures.
  — Robert Radin, Marie Claire, 18 May 2015
• Next, Taylor had to find a suture thread that would hold onto the dye.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
• My top-surgery scars are tattooed over, the suture marks no longer visible.
  — Thomas Page McBee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
• Jedi suffered wounds to his head and around one of his eyes, which were treated with sutures.
  — Anna Buchmann, sacbee, 21 May 2018
• Frazee received sutures for the bites in the emergency room, records show.
  — Brad Branan, sacbee.com, 6 May 2017
• The skull is there, but with only some of the jagged suture-lines that run outwards from its center.
  — Jack Hartnell, Time, 30 Oct. 2019
• Patty’s incision was closed with the same kind of tiny sutures used on human eyes.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• The problem was that those surgeries often required sutures and took longer to heal.
  — Pasquale Hinrichs, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
• First is the ability to cut and suture in deeper, tighter quarters.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• The fat is processed, prepped, then re-injected into the area, which is then closed by suture.
  — Beth Ashley, refinery29.com, 8 July 2022
• The fat is processed, prepped, and then re-injected into the area, which is then closed by suture.
  — Beth Ashley, refinery29.com, 4 July 2022
• The sutures and location shown in the photo does appear to be a knife cut to the layman.
  — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• The sutures, which eventually dissolve, act like strings, pulling up the skin.
  — Emily Dudding, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Mar. 2016
• It is advised that sutures be removed within fourteen days.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
• My eyes were practically swollen shut and my face was covered in bruises and sutures.
  — Serena Daniari, Allure, 23 Mar. 2019
• Using a needle, a doctor puts two to six tiny sutures beneath the skin from the top of each ear to the jawline.
  — Emily Dudding, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Mar. 2016
• There are a series of sutures going from one part of the stomach to the bottom of the stomach all the way to the top.
  — John Torres, NBC News, 5 June 2017
• But in this case, the suture is simply threaded through the skin without a knot, which is why cones or barbs are needed to lift the skin.
  — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 24 Mar. 2022
• Sadly, Walter can't come because his sutures won't hold if he's carried out.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 15 July 2023
• Daniels was given sutures for a laceration to his right eyebrow.
  — Molly Sullivan, sacbee, 14 June 2018
• Nor the material of the sutures.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
• Arthrex has recalled a knee replacement device and a type of suture anchors in recent years.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 May 2021
• The graft is secured with sutures and the incision in the elbow is stitched back together.
  — Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
• The group would have two minutes to make a small incision in the animal, set the tracker and suture the wound closed.
  — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
• However, the deep sutures that surgeons place can take eight to 12 weeks or more to fully dissolve.
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 27 Jan. 2026
• When the sutures dissolved, my father, who had a bleeding disorder, went into shock.
  — Donna Jackson Nakazawa, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
• This training taught them to focus their gaze on the exact location of the knot before looping the sutures.
  — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
• The sutures hold everything in place until your own natural healing maintains the ear for the rest of your life.
  — Dr. Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 7 May 2018
• Because the face is numb for a time following surgery, patients don’t feel the sutures in their skin, even as they’re being removed.
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 16 Mar. 2026

suture

2 of 2 verb

• The surgeon sutured the incision.
• Last month, a prison dentist removed her wisdom teeth but did not suture the wounds.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
• Torres then ties the artery off, and sutures the incision closed.
  — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• The surgeon sutured the wounds but knew the arm would have to be amputated.
  — Sarah El Deeb, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
• The bird’s wound was sutured and it was treated with antibiotics, Sharp said.
  — Taylor Hartz, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• The procedure requires a few very small incisions that sutured closed at the end.
  — Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Sep. 2021
• There was this 11-year-old boy learning how to suture trauma wounds with one of the military medics.
  — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Then, surgeons sutured layers of tissue and repaired the defect.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 June 2019
• First, the brain is mostly freed from the skull; all the dangling arteries, save the carotids, are cauterized or sutured.
  — Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• Doctors still will need to practice sawing into bone and suturing muscles.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
• The nerves can be sutured back together to minimize pain, Bank said, but most breast surgeons haven’t been trained to do this.
  — Brett Kelman, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
• The nerves can be sutured back together to minimize pain, Bank said, but most breast surgeons haven’t been trained to do this.
  — CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
• The story is so bold, the actors deliver top notch performances, and the director sutures you to the screen.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 May 2025
• While there is much to do to suture our economy, our foremost priority has been preserving life.
  — Jerry Levin, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
• But behind the scenes, the team’s medical staff came up with a radical idea to suture the loose ankle tendon back into the skin.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Your periodontist will harvest the graft tissue and move it over to the recipient site, suturing it in place.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 11 Mar. 2019
• In a young patient, when possible, the preferred treatment is surgery to unlock the knee and repair the meniscus by suturing it back in its place.
  — Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 18 May 2018
• Treatment typically starts with clipping the fur around the injury, cleaning the area and, if needed, suturing the skin.
  — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 21 Jan. 2026
• If the body has suffered an injury, Sweeney will suture the wound together, then use mortuary wax and cosmetics to smooth it over.
  — Mike Winters,gene Kim, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
• There will be dozens of kinds of surgical robots, and many will tackle specific jobs, from suturing in the abdomen to setting a broken leg.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• Once that second project is completed, Hansen would remove the devices, suture the small wounds and send the horses off to a rescue shelter.
  — Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2014
• The first version of STAR sutured a piece of small intestine pulled up through an incision.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 May 2025
• Right there, in the woman’s hands, clasped tenderly around her neighbor’s ribcage as if to suture a gashing sob, those downcast eyes that wouldn’t reach yours, those faces only known from the side.
  — Emmanuel Iduma, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2019
• Peyton procured the skin from a local fish market, sterilized it and then sutured it onto the sedated animals' paws.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• During the repair, the doctor places the bandage between the two sides of the meniscus and then sutures the meniscal-collagen sandwich together.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2017
• Researchers compared the performance of the autonomous bot and a human surgeon on the same suturing task and found that the bot's stitches were more uniform and made a tighter seal.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
• The issue was surrounding his leg amputation surgery, a procedure that involves stretching the muscles and suturing them to provide the bone with padding.
  — Jacob Louraine, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
• The different areas of the scar are elevated and using a plastic surgery closure, the different layers are sutured together.
  — Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 9 Apr. 2018
• Working primarily with rubbery mock-ups of human tissue, experimental robots have sutured, cleaned wounds, and cut out tumors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
• The surgeon would insert the device toward the end of an operation—when a patient is already cut open—and suture the surgical site, leaving the tube coming up through the skin to attach to the pump.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2022