How to Use depressor in a Sentence

depressor

noun

• More from Morning Mix: A girl licked a tongue depressor at a clinic and put it back.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2019
• As the cable pays out, the Fish smacks the surface and then, following the tug of the depressor, begins its descent.
  — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
• Leptin is produced by fat cells and is best known as a depressor of appetite.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
• The next morning, a dentist levered my teeth back into place with a tongue depressor and cemented them in line.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• An experience that began by ripping open the package to pull out one of the Lik-A-Stix, a chalky-sweet semi-hard candy stick shaped almost like a tongue depressor.
  — Jami Curl, Bon Appetit, 19 Apr. 2017
• How the cable extends two yards in length for every yard of depth until the weight of the cable and the depressor matches the velocity of the ship to form a perfect parabolic arc.
  — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
• The animated Forky character has a white spork body, googly eyes, red pipe cleaner arms and tongue depressor feet.
  — Brady MacDonald, The Mercury News, 9 July 2019
• Not Schumann the nut job, not Schumann as mood elevator or depressor, but life giver.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
• Voters will have access to hand sanitizer and will be given a disposable stick that looks like a tongue depressor to mark their votes on the voting machine's touchscreen.
  — Pat Beall and John Moritz, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020
• As Asma helped arrange paper flowers in a basket on the dining room table, Aqsa — who wore a plastic stethoscope around her neck — used a tongue depressor to check inside Gulsom’s mouth.
  — Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• The TytoCare medical device comes with a thermometer, stethoscope and tongue depressor among other things.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• Biology professors, as well as local school districts, have also teamed up to donate Nitrile gloves, sterile tongue depressors and swabs.
  — Jessie Gomez, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2020
• An Associated Press reporter who witnessed the execution said Jones moved his lips briefly after the midazolam was administered, and officials put a tongue depressor in his mouth intermittently for the first few minutes.
  — Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
• Displays cover everything from early medical instruments (forceps, tongue depressors and tonsillotomes, also called tonsil guillotines) to MRI coils.
  — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024