How to Use recovery room in a Sentence

recovery room

noun
  • In the recovery room, a quick X-ray showed that the biopsy had gone as planned.
    Jeffrey E. Poehlmann, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
  • After the surgery, you will be moved to a recovery room.
    Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 8 Mar. 2023
  • After about a half-hour in the recovery room, Kris is asked to leave.
    New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • The recovery room must have been such an awful place to be.
    Sam Dorman, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2021
  • There was a fold-out couch in the recovery room, and when Pesch closed it, there was a sudden, loud sound.
    Edward Chen, STAT, 5 Apr. 2023
  • He and my dear friend Amy came into the recovery room with the biggest smiles on their faces.
    Jennifer Williams, Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • In a private recovery room, the man in the baseball cap kissed her forehead and touched her left hand.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2019
  • Stephen was awakened and transferred to the recovery room.
    Christopher Linstrom, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2011
  • In the recovery room following the three-hour surgery, Nora had a series of seizures right in front of us.
    Lauren Levy, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Bosco built a workout and recovery room with a cold tub — a feature unique to elite athletes.
    Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2020
  • Heat Healer Body Belt, $228 Skip the recovery room at your local gym and wind down at home instead.
    Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The pain of waking up in the recovery room which is worsened by that immediate sense of loss.
    Audre Lorde, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Journals the clinic keeps in the recovery room were filled with entries about challenges the patients had faced.
    Kate Kelly, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Their conversation takes place in the recovery room ice baths — no, thank you!
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Suvari recalls waking up and seeing the implants on a side table as she was wheeled to the recovery room.
    Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
  • In the recovery room, the nurses were transferring a young patient from a gurney into her bed, her back arched in agony.
    New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • In the recovery room, Merzatta’s husband, Chris, lay asleep beside her.
    Natalie Lampert, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
  • After spending an hour or two in the recovery room while the anesthesia wears off, patients return home the same day.
    Kaitlin Clark, Allure, 30 July 2019
  • Jean was brought to the recovery room, where she was surrounded by other mothers and their healthy babies.
    Nathaniel Rich Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • During their hospital stay, the twins were put in recovery rooms near each other.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 20 Sep. 2018
  • The space that would have been a recovery room for patients after a procedure holds a few cardboard boxes with packed items.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Others head to the spa for a CBD massage or visit the recovery room, which is equipped with leg compression sleeves and infrared blankets.
    Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Afterward, Helen would be escorted to a lounge chair in the recovery room.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • You may be allowed to be with them in the procedure or recovery room, so check in with the clinic and your friend about that possibility.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 7 Nov. 2018
  • The macaque vomited in the recovery room and died after inhaling the vomit into its lungs.
    Rob O'Dell, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2021
  • With a fully functional workout room stocked with state-of-the-art equipment and an athlete recovery room, work and working out go hand in hand.
    Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014
  • But those minutes could mean the difference between ending up in the morgue or a hospital recovery room.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The hospital has had to convert a recovery room into an area to treat intensive care unit patients.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Ringo lived in the recovery room until Miranda’s release a few days later, his vigil broken only when my wife and I took him out for walks and meals.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The hospital patient died in the recovery room from hemorrhage and organ failure, the report said.
    Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 24 May 2023

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