How to Use amputate in a Sentence

amputate

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• His arm was badly injured and had to be amputated.
• The decision was made to amputate his leg to give him the best chance overcome this injury.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Two weeks later, Hollar's leg was amputated from the knee down.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2018
• But now, even though it was feared the leg crushed in the crash would have to be amputated, Trahan can walk without a limp.
  — John S. Marshall, Houston Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
• Roc Peeler talks about losing his outdoor home and about having a leg amputated.
  — Justin Sayers, The Courier-Journal, 15 Feb. 2018
• She was put on life support and eventually needed both of her legs amputated below the knee.
  — Leanna Commins, Cosmopolitan, 23 Jan. 2018
• Doctors amputated the mangled half of his finger and inserted a titanium plate near his left eye.
  — Martin Kuz, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
• She is believed to be the first female pilot in the Air Force to return to the cockpit after having a leg amputated.
  — Nathan Fenno, latimes.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Owing to a series of unfortunate events, a third man, who was suffering from frostbite, ended up stuck at the camp as well and had to have his toes amputated with a penknife.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• That missing digit on Fumagalli’s left hand — amputated the day after he was born because of a birth defect — might cost him a bundle of money.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 16 Jan. 2018
• Model Lauren Wasser, who lost part of her right leg and the toes on her left foot to toxic shock syndrome in 2012, had her left leg amputated last week.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 16 Jan. 2018
• Shaquem Griffin, a dynamic linebacker from UCF who happens to have had his left hand amputated at age 4, is going to the combine.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• To save his life, doctors had to amputate the ends of his limbs.
  — Sam Bradpiece, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• The agency said medics had to amputate an arm to free her.
  — Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Zeynep Bilginsoy, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
• The crash broke both of Tyler's legs, which had to be amputated.
  — Samantha West, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
• The doctors saved his left leg but had to amputate part of his right limb.
  — Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• Soon, the infection grows worse, and the only way to save the child's life is to amputate.
  — Michelle McMurry-Heath and henry Skinner, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2021
• Doctors were forced to amputate his right leg above the knee.
  — Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
• His right front paw will be amputated in the next month or so, said Todd.
  — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• He was placed on a horse and taken to Red Bluff, where the leg was amputated.
  — Steve Schoonover, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• All procedures amputate the last bone of the cat’s toes.
  — Marissa Plescia, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• To free himself, he was forced to amputate his right arm.
  — Edmund Vallance, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
• With all the nerves and veins in his left arm destroyed, it was amputated.
  — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• As Sameer escapes, Frenchie thinks fast, grabs a saw, and amputates Kimiko’s leg before the virus can spread to the rest of her body.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 11 July 2024
• As a result, both of his legs were amputated at the thigh.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• Tvrdik and her team made the decision to amputate the left leg to give her the best quality of life.
  — Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
• Colonel Taha made it to the far bank, and five days later his right leg was amputated.
  — Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• Adams had parts of his leg amputated and died on June 14, five days after the crash.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• At one point, he was told doctors might have to amputate his leg.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Oct. 2021
• Doctors had to remove seven teeth and amputate his left arm at the mid-humerus bone.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024