How to Use tonsillectomy in a Sentence

tonsillectomy

noun

• The surgeon performed a tonsillectomy.
• Indeed, almost half of children who’d had a tonsillectomy had just two sore throats in a year.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2018
• Yeates said the doctor told her that a tonsillectomy and ear tubes would likely solve everything.
  — Jocelyn Wiener, sacbee, 15 Jan. 2018
• There was an experience in my early life, my sister was very young and almost died from a tonsillectomy that went wrong.
  — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• In rare circumstances, as seen on the show, bleeding after tonsillectomy can be very severe, even fatal.
  — Emily Boss, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
• The surgery, called a tonsillectomy, is usually only recommended if your child is getting strep seven or more times in one year.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
• Some people think tonsillectomies are only for children under 12.
  — Pao Vang, M.d., Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
• Dozens — some as young as 2 — have perished after routine operations, such as colonoscopies and tonsillectomies.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2018
• Another challenge struck when Martinez had to have a tonsillectomy and couldn’t stay in the shelter during her recovery.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
• The little girl's aunt invited her to recuperate from the tonsillectomy at her home on Long Island.
  — Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 30 Sep. 2016
• Surgery Some cases of IgA nephropathy may benefit from a tonsillectomy, a surgery that removes your tonsils in the throat.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 30 Sep. 2024
• If this is a frequent, recurring issue, doctors may recommend a tonsillectomy.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
• So Glover urged an end to widespread tonsillectomies, which, given the rate of surgical infections at the time, spared English teenagers a lot of suffering.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• For example, a child may need a tonsillectomy to relieve sleep apnea, which causes breathing trouble during sleep, Sanford explained.
  — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2022
• In more severe cases, your doctor might recommend a tonsillectomy to remove the tonsils altogether.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
• At twelve, despite a difficult tonsillectomy and her parents’ divorce, she was warmly housed, lovingly tended, doted on by grandparents and adored by older cousins.
  — Joshua Ferris, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Freestone said since then, more than 200 surgeries have been performed, including tonsillectomies, hernia repair and bronchoscopies.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 19 July 2019
• Mendelsohn underwent a radical tonsillectomy followed by seven weeks of radiation, five days per week, and seven rounds of nine-hour chemotherapy with a feeding tube in his stomach.
  — Shayne Benowitz, miamiherald, 24 May 2018
• Shortly after, Alston died of complications from a tonsillectomy surgery during college.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2021
• The same-day center provided flexibility while saving patients up to half the cost of overnight hospital stays for simple procedures such as tonsillectomies, cataract surgeries and some plastic surgeries.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 July 2017
• One small 2023 study also found that gargling with honey — 15 milliliters of honey mixed in 5 ml of water — helped ease pain from a tonsillectomy, or surgery to remove the tonsils.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
• The Mavericks announced that guard Frank Ntilikina underwent a tonsillectomy earlier in the week.
  — Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2022
• The city Board of Health moved to close schools, parks, swimming pools and dance halls — in some cases, only to people under 21 — prohibited the sale of unpasteurized milk and discouraged tonsillectomies at this time.
  — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 9 May 2020
• Removal of the tonsils (tonsillectomy) and/or adenoids (adenoidectomy) may be recommended.
  — Philly.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• From there, if someone has repeated symptomatic strep infections during a fairly short period of time, their doctor may recommend a tonsillectomy, the surgical removal of the tonsils, to prevent further infections.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 22 Mar. 2023
• The tonsillectomy, once common, is generally an outpatient procedure performed under general anesthesia.
  — Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• Bleeding after tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy also occurs often.
  — Joanna Davis, M.d., miamiherald, 26 June 2017