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
  • Mocha is a 1-year-old female who has a surgical scar on her stomach.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The clinic performs surgical abortions three days out of the week.
    Maya T. Prabhu, ajc, 1 July 2022
  • The pros land their tee shots with surgical precision between them and Rae’s Creek.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • On the driver’s side, officers wearing blue surgical gloves opened the door and entered.
    Reis Thebault and Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Virginia said that Edna never talked about it, but Edna was a surgical nurse when ribs were taken out in bushels of six to 10 at a time.
    Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The implant is smaller than a quarter, contains over 1000 electrode channels, and is placed in the brain by a surgical robot.
    IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2023
  • But the president should be fully cured of this through a small surgical procedure to remove it.
    CBS News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Georgia law does not forbid the surgical removal of an already dead child.
    The Editors, National Review, 23 Sep. 2024
  • By the second month of the pandemic, nurses were allowed to use only surgical masks, Gillis said.
    Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Both medical and surgical abortions are available in both the first and second trimesters.
    Dr. Erica Jalal, ABC News, 30 June 2022
  • Oh, and don't forget the fluorescent lighting, because why not have a dorm room feel like a surgical one?
    Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Sitcoms are incredibly surgical, and there's not room for that kind of play.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Except for some paintings of Afghanistan, the interior, brightened as if by surgical lights, does not suggest that the food of the country is served there.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Monica Molenaar, co-founder of Alloy Health, kicked off the evening by sharing her own personal story of surgical menopause at age 40 due to a family history of breast and ovarian cancer.
    Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Abdominoplasty Abdominoplasty is a surgical procedure that removes excess fat and skin, tightens stomach muscles, and pulls the skin of the abdomen taut.
    Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2024

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