How to Use ultrasound in a Sentence
ultrasound
noun- She showed me an ultrasound of her unborn baby.
- She had an ultrasound this morning.
- They used ultrasound to examine his heart.
- She had an ultrasound exam this morning.
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Even teeth can be pulled, and ultrasounds can be done.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2026
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The ultrasound found a cyst on her left ovary, the lawsuit states.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 July 2023
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The ultrasound showed about half a dozen cysts inside both breasts.
—Rebekah Kuschmider, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
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This isn’t the first time Moore has showed her fans a glimpse of one of her ultrasounds.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 30 June 2018
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Maybe the researchers read the ultrasound wrong.
—Outside, 6 Jan. 2026
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The ultrasound showed that there was a sac filled with fluid on the baby’s neck.
—Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2022
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At that time, there was no ultrasound, so to be pregnant was much more abstract.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
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About a decade ago, researchers found a way to adapt ultrasound for brain imaging.
—Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2021
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Some plans may pay for two or even three ultrasounds, while others cover just one in full.
—Sarah Gantz, Philly.com, 13 June 2018
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But when the doctor performed the ultrasound, there was no sound.
—The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2021
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The dating ultrasound goes well, but what if the 11 week one doesn’t?
—Amanda Allen, ELLE, 11 Feb. 2022
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Then came the ultrasound at 18 weeks, and their world turned upside down.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
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The park's zoo team was able to capture the fetus' head, eyes and mouth with the ultrasound.
—Taylor Pettaway, ExpressNews.com, 13 Jan. 2021
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The soon-to-be first-time dad was in a Reds t-shirt watching his wife's ultrasound.
—Joe Danneman, The Enquirer, 9 Aug. 2020
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An ultrasound revealed a blockage in his leg, cutting off the flow of blood to his foot.
—Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 July 2021
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This isn't the first time the use of ultrasound has been explored for drug delivery.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2025
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Serena invites her to her swanky cell and shows her the ultrasound.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 May 2021
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The group also has access to a mobile ultrasound that can be used in the field with a phone as a screen.
—Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2019
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The patient had undergone an ultrasound of the heart, which hadn’t shown a hole.
—Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2020
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But the ultrasound tech refused to sign off on the exception.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
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The team’s new non-invasive ultrasound probe is the first to solve this problem.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
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Phillips' last ultrasound had been one week and three days before, and the fetus had a heartbeat then.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
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Patrick was dressed in light colors as were the children, who held their mom’s ultrasound photos.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2024
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The mammogram did not pick up the cancer; the ultrasound did.
—Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2022
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Don’t let ‘your ultrasound looks fine’ be the end of the conversation.
—Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 20 May 2026
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The other way to estimate the age of the fetus is through an ultrasound.
—Julia Belluz, Vox, 9 June 2018
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