How to Use surgical in a Sentence

surgical

adjective

• The work was done with surgical precision.
• The footage shows the person wearing a dark hoodie and a surgical mask in the early hours of May 25.
  — Maria Aguilar, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
• If both were wearing surgical masks, that time would rise to about an hour.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 14 Aug. 2022
• Meredith asks before the scene shifts to a shot of the surgical interns getting ready for a new day.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
• The doctor’s back faced the camera, blocking the surgical site.
  — John Yoon, New York Times, 13 May 2022
• Mocha is a 1-year-old female who has a surgical scar on her stomach.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• The surgical ban is not being debated in the Supreme Court case.
  — Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 4 Dec. 2024
• Most statewide and local mask mandates in the U.S. allow cloth and surgical masks and don’t address how well the masks fit.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2022
• The clinic performs surgical abortions three days out of the week.
  — Maya T. Prabhu, ajc, 1 July 2022
• Monita was wearing a gray puffer and a white surgical mask.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• The pros land their tee shots with surgical precision between them and Rae’s Creek.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• If not, a surgical mask with a cloth mask on top would be a good alternative.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• Even the simple act of peeling away surgical tape would take their skin off, Nadarajah said.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• Plastic surgery: In some cases, the only way to truly turn back the effects of would be a surgical face lift, says Dr. Levine.
  — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 8 Feb. 2023
• Now, 40 years later, the remnants of the surgical scar are still palpable on the inside of his lower lip.
  — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• The stock added more than 6% after the maker of the da Vinci surgical robot beat on both top and bottom lines in the third quarter.
  — Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
• The ministry told Reuters that surgical masks could count as a face covering.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 22 May 2022
• Used surgical gloves were scattered on the ground nearby.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2022
• In the photos, many of the models have regal silver or gold metallic paint brushed across their surgical scars.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• One of the suspects was described as a Black male in his 20s wearing a black hoodie, black pants, dark-colored gloves and a surgical mask.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022
• Be sure to also check out our guide to N95s and other surgical masks, our favorite face masks, and how to order free at-home Covid-19 tests.
  — Brenda Stolyar, Wired, 12 Feb. 2022
• Adults who can't tolerate such masks or children too young to wear these masks should wear at least a 3-ply surgical mask.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 8 May 2022
• The researchers had put three surgical staples at the incision site.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Police describe the suspect as a man wearing a surgical mask, a blue-hooded sweatshirt and a grey T-shirt over the top.
  — Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2022
• The first two deputies to enter the house -- wearing surgical masks -- smelled a noxious, pungent odor inside.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022
• Coleman said in the medical surgical unit, the nurse-to-patient ratio is crucial to quick care when the need arises.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Salads tend to show off a surgical grafting of Khan’s and Fox’s aesthetics.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Is the surgical option that could have Purdy, 23, ready around the start of training camp in late July in his best interest?
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2023
• The clinical trial is testing the safety and effectiveness of the brain chip and the surgical robot used to implant the device in people with tetraparesis, weakness in arms and legs, or tetraplegia, complete paralysis in arms and legs.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
• Duggins was returning to Washington, D.C., after visiting Kansas to be with her mother during a surgical procedure.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025