How to Use X-ray in a Sentence

X-ray

noun

• On the far right, X-rays are in there, microwaves are in there.
  — WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
• The first is a product of the medical record—the sum of blood tests, X-rays, and urine samples.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2024
• Some of those patients have come to him for X-rays for those injuries.
  — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• In the emergency room, doctors took X-rays and a CT scan.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
• Tracks from the beetle larvae are visible to the naked eye and, more deeply, to X-rays.
  — Christopher Knight, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• Gas that emits X-rays is a sign of a supermassive black hole.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• This time, doctors ordered X-rays and found fractures in her legs and wrist.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2023
• While the X-ray source is far smaller than the galaxy, X-rays are much harder to resolve.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
• She was taken to a field hospital in Rafah where an X-ray showed the bullet lodged near her spine.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
• That will give Moore a chance to rest the sore ribs, which are not broken according to X-rays taken during the game.
  — cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
• D’Angelo Russell did not play in the second half because of a sore left foot, but the injury didn’t require X-rays.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• At first, though, the team tried to use X-rays, but this failed to uncover much detail as the boxes were made of metal.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
• Shortly after Rodgers left the game, the Jets announced that X-rays of his leg were negative.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Chmerkovskiy posted images of his X-rays, along with another of himself in a neck brace and hooked up to a drip.
  — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• The medical care, including X-rays and a cast for a fractured wrist, set her back about $3,000.
  — Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Instead, many pulses of X-rays will create snapshots over time, like frames on a film reel.
  — The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• The medical staff doesn’t believe the injury will require X-rays.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• The scanners used high-energy X-rays to look past the organism’s scales, fur, or skin to view the dense bone structure beneath.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
• These tests can include chest X-rays, swabbing the inside of the mouth or nose, pulse oximetry to detect levels of oxygen and blood tests.
  — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 7 Apr. 2024
• The clouds of high-temperature gas inside each cluster emit X-rays and allowed the team to map out the collision.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• Given their translucent or jelly-like nature, the beads are hard to detect through imaging and X-rays.
  — Kristina Behr, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
• He is scheduled to get another round of X-rays on Monday, Lovullo said.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
• According to the hospital, Brooke’s head was scanned by a CT machine and his lungs were examined by X-rays.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• Love missed Monday night’s home victory over the Hawks due to bruised right rib, with X-rays coming back negative over the weekend.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
• At the time, people feared that the health impact of radiation exposure from X-rays could pass down to their children.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 12 Feb. 2024
• The hot gas that surrounds galaxy groups and clusters is thin but scientists study it using X-rays because the gas is a large part of both groups and clusters.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• Stuart died in 1702, the bird soon afterward, and while the noblewoman is made of wax, her pet is stuffed; X-rays have shown that its skeleton is complete.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• The intense heat is about 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit and releases the surge of X-rays that the Swift satellite first detected.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• So the parents -- living in Melissa, Texas, at the time -- took their boy for X-rays, and doctors noticed what appeared to be a calcium deposit on the right knee.
  — Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• My mom then called my pediatrician and then at my next physical, my doctor saw my back and sent me to get X-rays.
  — Anika Nayak, STAT, 5 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024