How to Use lobotomy in a Sentence

lobotomy

noun

• The lobotomy is a favorite, a swift blow with a hammer and ice pick straight through the eye socket.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
• Sister Sage asking the Deep to give her a lobotomy is one of the grossest scenes of the season so far.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 20 June 2024
• After the lobotomy, Rosemary was no longer able to walk or talk.
  — Lyz Lenz, Marie Claire, 31 Mar. 2017
• But this is not a story about the evils of lobotomy, except as a means to discuss something else.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2019
• To be in an asylum then was to be in a very overcrowded place where the treatments, even prior to the lobotomy, were often brutal.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2016
• By the 1930s, frontal lobotomy was emerging as a treatment for mental illness.
  — Katherine Foxhall, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
• But there was no mention in the literature of predatory lobotomies.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
• Walter Jackson Freeman, dubbed the father of the lobotomy.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
• Bradley had suffered a severe head injury when his ship sank in the Pacific Ocean, and later had a partial lobotomy.
  — Brendan Farrington, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Turns out that the skull is a medical training device for spine and neurosurgeons, and can be used to instruct them on how to conduct a lobotomy.
  — CBS News, 30 Sep. 2023
• One such experiment is the lobotomy, as the new trailer suggests.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2020
• Morrison: ‘Paradise with a lobotomy’ or ‘just a big parking lot’?
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Occasionally, Richards said, one of them winds up getting a lobotomy and the voices don’t work anymore.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2021
• Rosemary had been an active member of the Kennedy family until her father agreed to a lobotomy for Rosemary in 1941.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
• Along with his sullen young assistant, Fiennes visits the asylums of the West Coast performing lobotomies and electric shock therapy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• It’s sometimes shown as a punishment, or a means of control — right up there with the lobotomy as a medical practice best left in the unenlightened past.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• Fantasizing about a lobotomy is a normal response to the last three years; believing that a $40 scented candle counts as self-care is not.
  — Emily Alford, Longreads, 23 Nov. 2022
• According to her Lahey doctors, the lobotomy was a success.
  — Jim Carrier, STAT, 12 June 2018
• Kirsten had died at age 24 while being treated for schizophrenia after having a lobotomy a year earlier.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 Nov. 2022
• In an earlier debate on the bill, von Gillern compared gender-affirming care to shock treatments, lobotomies, and forced sterilizations.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• In 1941, surgeons convinced the Kennedy patriarch, Joseph Kennedy, of the need for a newfangled medical procedure: a lobotomy.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
• Try electric shock therapy, drugs that render men impotent, or maybe even a lobotomy.
  — Jane M. Von Bergen, Philly.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• In 1949, the prize for medicine was awarded to Antonio Moniz for inventing prefrontal lobotomy, which turned people into walking shells of themselves and termed them cured.​ Enough said.
  — Devang Mehta, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
• People with damage to the hippocampus often can’t make new memories — the famous patient H.M., who had a lobotomy to remove much of that part of the brain, introduced himself to his doctor over and over again each day.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2016
• One crew member immediately runs afoul of a viral shaming campaign, for which the penalty of not getting enough upvotes is a lobotomy.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2018
• The world’s first transorbital lobotomy was performed in 1946 by Walter Freeman, in his Washington office.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• And then, just like that, our glorious psychological lobotomy was wiped out.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• President Kennedy's sister, Rosemary Kennedy, had part of her brain removed in 1941 in a relatively new procedure known as a prefrontal lobotomy.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 2 Aug. 2019
• California Patt Morrison: ‘Paradise with a lobotomy’ or ‘just a big parking lot’?
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• As recently as the mid-20th century, doctors performed lobotomies on people deemed mentally ill, severing the connection between the thalamus and the frontal lobe.
  — Kristen Martin, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024