How to Use prosthetic in a Sentence

prosthetic

adjective
  • The group cheered as Street pulled the prosthetic leg out of the water.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
  • His prosthetic right leg fits around the rounded bit of what’s left of his thigh.
    Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In the end, a prosthetic neck wattle piece was used to give that sagging, aged look to that area.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
  • In addition to the eight prosthetic pieces, Leto wore a wig.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Nov. 2021
  • And while working, he was hit by a train, leaving him with a prosthetic leg.
    Joy Dong, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Prescott loved how the prosthetic leg turned out and having matching art with Potts.
    Elizabeth Flores, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In the new film (as onstage), Dinklage plays the role without a prosthetic nose.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Fraser donned a prosthetic suit for the role, which was also aided by a small amount of CGI.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 4 Sep. 2022
  • To bring this evil to life, Gower began with a life cast of the actor to ensure all the prosthetic work would be skin tight.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Some prosthetic limbs connect to nerves that can convey a sense of touch.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Why does Chris Hemsworth wear a prosthetic nose in 'Furiosa'?
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
  • There's a doll with a prosthetic leg, a doll with vitiligo, and one with behind-the-ear hearing aids.
    Arianna Bradford, Parents, 27 July 2023
  • To craft the prosthetic head that appears in the film, Washington had to do a plaster cast and a 360-degree scan of his head.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Fanning does wear a prosthetic forehead for the courtroom scenes to match Carter’s hairline, but the brows are the actress’s own.
    ELLE, 19 Apr. 2022
  • One was that there was just one company that made a 3D printer large enough to print a prosthetic breast.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Cadete says a big conversation in the world of prosthetic limbs for amputees is how the brain will adapt to these devices.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This, in turn, set new standards for realism and comfort in the prosthetic breast world.
    Rae Witte, Women's Health, 21 July 2023
  • For some costumes, artists will change the shape of their face by wearing prosthetic devices.
    Laken Brooks, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
  • And then, at the end of the night, as prosthetic makeup faces started to peel and pointed hats began to droop, the models, as if choreographed, left the club in packs.
    Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The line includes the first Barbie with behind-the-ear hearing aids, a Ken doll with vitiligo and a doll with a prosthetic leg.
    Morgan Sung, NBC News, 11 May 2022
  • Much ink has been spilled — or rather, tweets fired off — over Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in his Leonard Bernstein biopic.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The standard warranty for a prosthetic knee is three years.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • The prosthetic right arm is the clear giveaway, not to mention the voice actresses being the same (at least in Japanese).
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The probation was revoked in 2005 when he was caught using a prosthetic device to fake a drug test.
    Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Emmanuel [who has a prosthetic leg] went to a panel and there was another guy on a wheelchair to be on the panel with him.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The highlight of the day was when 13-year-old Ethan Miller received a surprise Össur prosthetic running leg.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • He was saved by Palpatine and given new prosthetic limbs, as well as a dark suit of armor that helps keep him alive.
    Tracy Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
  • Once a wheelchair user, Nate now walks on prosthetic legs.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2023
  • In the behind-the-scenes clip, Stone carefully lays the prosthetic pieces on her face before applying makeup over top.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024
  • And my agent called me and said that I was being offered a comedy that would require prosthetic makeup and my character’s name was Freakshow.
    Mara Reinstein, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024

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