How to Use amputate in a Sentence

amputate

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• His arm was badly injured and had to be amputated.
• One of the survivors was a woman who had to have her arms amputated.
  — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• Doctors had to remove seven teeth and amputate his left arm at the mid-humerus bone.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
• Both her legs were smashed, and one of them had to be amputated to remove her from the vehicle.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Masters would have both legs amputated, her left at age 9 and the right at 14.
  — Courier Journal and Usa Today, The Courier-Journal, 17 Mar. 2018
• In the mid-2000s, doctors were forced to amputate his legs due to poor circulation.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2018
• Some caretakers will also amputate their unwieldy rabbit ears, leaving the square, awkward stumps.
  — Kristin Hugo, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
• The attack by another dog on Kim Ashley's dog Marnie was so vicious Marnie's front leg had to be amputated.
  — Prescotte Stokes Iii, star-telegram, 25 Mar. 2018
• What might have been a short stay turned into a three-month stint as Garthwaite suffered congestive heart failure and an infection in his left foot so bad that doctors had to amputate it.
  — Tyler Langan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2018
• Three months in, doctors at the University of Michigan recommended amputating my right leg above the knee to get rid of the infected bone.
  — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 8 Mar. 2018
• This year, Purdy, who had both of her legs amputated after being diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis at age 19, hopes for a gold medal in the same event.
  — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• To devise a menu of vibrations that would signal 22 separate movements of the hand, the researchers largely worked with six participants who had had an arm amputated.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile, Mohammadi was flown to a hospital in Portland, where doctors amputated one of his legs about 6 inches below the knee.
  — Fox News, 17 Mar. 2018
• To save his life, doctors had to amputate the ends of his limbs.
  — Sam Bradpiece, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• The agency said medics had to amputate an arm to free her.
  — Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Zeynep Bilginsoy, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
• The crash broke both of Tyler's legs, which had to be amputated.
  — Samantha West, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
• The doctors saved his left leg but had to amputate part of his right limb.
  — Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• Soon, the infection grows worse, and the only way to save the child's life is to amputate.
  — Michelle McMurry-Heath and henry Skinner, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2021
• Doctors were forced to amputate his right leg above the knee.
  — Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
• When Griffin was four years old, his parents discovered him planning to amputate his fingers to alleviate excruciating pain.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• His right front paw will be amputated in the next month or so, said Todd.
  — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• He was placed on a horse and taken to Red Bluff, where the leg was amputated.
  — Steve Schoonover, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• All procedures amputate the last bone of the cat’s toes.
  — Marissa Plescia, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• To free himself, he was forced to amputate his right arm.
  — Edmund Vallance, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
• With all the nerves and veins in his left arm destroyed, it was amputated.
  — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• As Sameer escapes, Frenchie thinks fast, grabs a saw, and amputates Kimiko’s leg before the virus can spread to the rest of her body.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 11 July 2024
• As a result, both of his legs were amputated at the thigh.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• Tvrdik and her team made the decision to amputate the left leg to give her the best quality of life.
  — Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
• Colonel Taha made it to the far bank, and five days later his right leg was amputated.
  — Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• Naeem said some of the wounded had severe burns and many had limbs amputated.
  — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024