How to Use surgical in a Sentence

surgical

adjective

• The work was done with surgical precision.
• Meredith asks before the scene shifts to a shot of the surgical interns getting ready for a new day.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
• Mocha is a 1-year-old female who has a surgical scar on her stomach.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• The pros land their tee shots with surgical precision between them and Rae’s Creek.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• Even the simple act of peeling away surgical tape would take their skin off, Nadarajah said.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• Plastic surgery: In some cases, the only way to truly turn back the effects of would be a surgical face lift, says Dr. Levine.
  — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 8 Feb. 2023
• Now, 40 years later, the remnants of the surgical scar are still palpable on the inside of his lower lip.
  — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• In the photos, many of the models have regal silver or gold metallic paint brushed across their surgical scars.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• The researchers had put three surgical staples at the incision site.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Coleman said in the medical surgical unit, the nurse-to-patient ratio is crucial to quick care when the need arises.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Salads tend to show off a surgical grafting of Khan’s and Fox’s aesthetics.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Is the surgical option that could have Purdy, 23, ready around the start of training camp in late July in his best interest?
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2023
• On the driver’s side, officers wearing blue surgical gloves opened the door and entered.
  — Reis Thebault and Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
• Virginia said that Edna never talked about it, but Edna was a surgical nurse when ribs were taken out in bushels of six to 10 at a time.
  — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• The implant is smaller than a quarter, contains over 1000 electrode channels, and is placed in the brain by a surgical robot.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2023
• But the president should be fully cured of this through a small surgical procedure to remove it.
  — CBS News, 5 Mar. 2023
• Oh, and don't forget the fluorescent lighting, because why not have a dorm room feel like a surgical one?
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023
• Except for some paintings of Afghanistan, the interior, brightened as if by surgical lights, does not suggest that the food of the country is served there.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• Patients will have to deal with the stress of surgical removal procedures and repeat skin exams.
  — Syeda Khaula Saad, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2024
• Of the hospitals in the south, just three have surgical capabilities, according to the WHO.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2023
• The mature eggs are then retrieved via a minor surgical procedure and fertilized with sperm in a lab.
  — Spencer Goidel, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2024
• My mother was a surgical nurse, and my father was a classical pianist.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Synchron inserts its device via a surgical incision in the base of the neck and then maneuvers the implant to its destination in the brain.
  — Sarah McBride, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
• At the hospital, the couple was told Cook would need a dilation and curettage procedure -- commonly known as a D&C -- the surgical removal of the lining of the uterus.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• It is used to clean everything from catheters to syringes, pacemakers and plastic surgical gowns.
  — Matthew Daly, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• Reign alum Adelaide Kane (who plays surgical intern Jules Millin) uploaded a photo of her name card behind her lunch plate.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• Citizen scientists cleaning a canal in Leiden, Netherlands, came across this young perch that had been killed by a surgical glove.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
• Those who do snag a spot between Oct. 1 and Halloween, the hotel’s busiest season, tend to share a common aesthetic: bridal fangs and cakes with Frankenstein-like surgical stitching can be part of it.
  — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Two foils guard the surgical steel blades underneath for a close shave without irritation.
  — Jack Byram, Health, 5 July 2023
• Equations could predict how the compartments would move with each surgical action.
  — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024