How to Use prosthetic in a Sentence

prosthetic

adjective
  • The group cheered as Street pulled the prosthetic leg out of the water.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
  • His prosthetic right leg fits around the rounded bit of what’s left of his thigh.
    Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In the end, a prosthetic neck wattle piece was used to give that sagging, aged look to that area.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
  • And while working, he was hit by a train, leaving him with a prosthetic leg.
    Joy Dong, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Prescott loved how the prosthetic leg turned out and having matching art with Potts.
    Elizabeth Flores, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Fraser donned a prosthetic suit for the role, which was also aided by a small amount of CGI.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 4 Sep. 2022
  • To bring this evil to life, Gower began with a life cast of the actor to ensure all the prosthetic work would be skin tight.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • There's a doll with a prosthetic leg, a doll with vitiligo, and one with behind-the-ear hearing aids.
    Arianna Bradford, Parents, 27 July 2023
  • Fanning does wear a prosthetic forehead for the courtroom scenes to match Carter’s hairline, but the brows are the actress’s own.
    ELLE, 19 Apr. 2022
  • One was that there was just one company that made a 3D printer large enough to print a prosthetic breast.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Cadete says a big conversation in the world of prosthetic limbs for amputees is how the brain will adapt to these devices.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This, in turn, set new standards for realism and comfort in the prosthetic breast world.
    Rae Witte, Women's Health, 21 July 2023
  • And then, at the end of the night, as prosthetic makeup faces started to peel and pointed hats began to droop, the models, as if choreographed, left the club in packs.
    Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The line includes the first Barbie with behind-the-ear hearing aids, a Ken doll with vitiligo and a doll with a prosthetic leg.
    Morgan Sung, NBC News, 11 May 2022
  • Much ink has been spilled — or rather, tweets fired off — over Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in his Leonard Bernstein biopic.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The standard warranty for a prosthetic knee is three years.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • The prosthetic right arm is the clear giveaway, not to mention the voice actresses being the same (at least in Japanese).
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The probation was revoked in 2005 when he was caught using a prosthetic device to fake a drug test.
    Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Emmanuel [who has a prosthetic leg] went to a panel and there was another guy on a wheelchair to be on the panel with him.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The highlight of the day was when 13-year-old Ethan Miller received a surprise Össur prosthetic running leg.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • He was saved by Palpatine and given new prosthetic limbs, as well as a dark suit of armor that helps keep him alive.
    Tracy Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
  • Once a wheelchair user, Nate now walks on prosthetic legs.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The process of creating prosthetic enhancements begins with a mold of the actor’s face or head.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • One of the first looks, in which Cooper plays a youthful Bernstein, took about two and a half hours to achieve, and involved applying lip and chin pieces along with the prosthetic nose.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The movie was in the works in the '90s — there's a popular video of Cage in costume, bulging prosthetic muscles and all — but never came to fruition, and Cage is not exactly sure why.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Measurements are regularly taken and the fit of his prosthetic limb is tweaked as the shape of his lower right leg changes and adapts to the device.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • For the Hanger team, this meant building a new prosthetic tail that would keep up with her changing body every so often.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Would Bradley Cooper be willing to hang up his prosthetic nose and make a return to comedy?
    Vulture, 25 Nov. 2023
  • In a photo shared by the Goodyear Police Department, the skull is withered, with what appears to be a prosthetic blue eye attached to the right socket.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • During a train fight, Kreischer punches through the prosthetic neck of a menacing thug and his hand gets stuck.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023

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