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.
  • The ultrasound found a cyst on her left ovary, the lawsuit states.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 July 2023
  • The ultrasound of his heart wouldn’t hurt, Eapen promised.
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Then came the ultrasound at 18 weeks, and their world turned upside down.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • The rest of the ultrasound wasn’t so bad, though: The familiar feeling of gel on her stomach, the sight of her uterus in grayscale.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
  • But the ultrasound tech refused to sign off on the exception.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • In the post, the family is seen smiling on the front porch steps of a home while Robertson holds images of an ultrasound.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But an ultrasound four months later showed that most of the baby’s organs were outside the body.
    Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • By week 18, her MFM was seeing more and more issues on ultrasound.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The ultrasound doesn’t take long, and the image is unmistakable.
    Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • One is a simple ultrasound that detects whether a child with sickle cell is at risk of having a stroke.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The bear pair bred in late March and early April, and the babies were detected via ultrasound in late October.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2022
  • First, Zhang used ultrasound to emit an incense made from the essence of tree of heaven from ArTreeficial’s trunk to entice the pests.
    Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Otis gets another ultrasound to confirm once more that there are two sacs on screen.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
  • But at a 23-week ultrasound, doctors noticed something looked wrong with his heart.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
  • An ultrasound revealed that they were riddled with cysts.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The day after the big reveal, the mama-to-be shared a video of herself and Jeezy using an at-home ultrasound machine to find their baby's heartbeat.
    Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Children can now enter the public gaze of millions with as little as their first ultrasound scan.
    WIRED, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The flowy love song soundtracks the pair going to an ultrasound (with Toliver adorably kissing Uchis’ belly) and the couple dancing in a kitchen.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Sometimes, when a pregnant person can’t afford to go to the doctor, Raven and the other escorts have nowhere to refer them for a free ultrasound except the bus across the street.
    Garnet Henderson, ELLE, 8 Dec. 2022
  • After the follow-up test, I was ushered into an ultrasound room.
    Michelle De Long, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Within minutes, she was told to climb into a wheelchair and was taken for an ultrasound.
    Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2023
  • If the patient isn't able to stop taking the drug in advance, the group recommends an ultrasound before surgery to ensure the stomach is empty.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2023
  • That prompted a visit last week to the facility's on-site hospital for an ultrasound and the CT scan.
    CBS News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Among the women who were surveyed, the first ultrasound is most commonly scheduled between weeks 6 and 12.
    Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Kae drove to her ultrasound appointment with one question on her mind: Did her fetus have a heartbeat?
    Caroline Kitchener, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022

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