How to Use operating room in a Sentence
operating room
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The staff tried to revive him in the operating room but could not pull him back from the brink of death.
—Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 June 2023
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The lungs were deemed good, and my mom was wheeled into the operating room.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
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When the moment comes for Joel to bust through the operating room door, the game doesn't give you the option to let the doctor live.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
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By the time the surgeon entered the operating room, the wrong leg had already been prepped.
—Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
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In the clip, the mom of two is running into the operating room topless.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
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Her name came down from the operating room on call schedule.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
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The patient was lowered onto the table, re-gowned, and wheeled out of the operating room.
—Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
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Someone listed the wrong leg on the board in the operating room, the surgery schedule, and the computer system.
—Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
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Still, there are boundaries to keep the kibitzers out of the law library, operating room and locker room so the experts can get the job done.
—Karla L. Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
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No one in the operating room mentioned the patient’s skin tone, which was a striking orange.
—Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
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And Wyle, now 53, shared that his mother, who worked for ten years in the operating room and ten years in orthopedics, didn’t mince words.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 24 June 2024
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She was brought into the operating room on a stretcher, tucked beneath a metallic gold sheet to keep her warm.
—Freep.com, 4 June 2023
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His home has an operating room and an unusual menagerie, including a bulldog with the back end of a goose.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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Martin said her young patient ended up going to the operating room with the ear, nose and throat surgeons, who were able to remove the tube and drain the abscess.
—Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
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And a couple of hours after that, Liza emerged from the operating room, curled up with her feathery blond hair askance and bandages from her belly to her neck.
—Freep.com, 4 June 2023
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Before doctors rolled Eliza and Ella into the operating room, Jesse and Sandy kissed both their heads.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
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One said a staffer had recently placed two insects in specimen jars, labeled them and left them on the main desk in the operating room.
—Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
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Sheri was rushed into the operating room to close and repair injuries from the rape and stabbing, medical records show.
—Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
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She’s credited as one of the nurses in the operating room of the Salt Lake City hospital, where Ellie is being prepped for surgery.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
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But at the hospital, she was told his case was hopeless; the operating room was already overwhelmed.
—Gaya Gupta, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
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The song played in the operating room while the patients underwent surgery meant to prevent seizures, according to Fortune’s Erin Prater.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
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That close inspection reveals features that are too small to be seen in an operating room.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2024
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One was a man who survived only because staff got him to the operating room within five minutes of arrival, Dr. Dustin Neel said.
—Heather Hollingsworth, arkansasonline.com, 16 Feb. 2024
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The Vision Pro was used to view virtual screens imposed on the operating room to select tools and monitor surgery progress.
—Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
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His mother, who was known as Rae, was an operating room nurse; his father worked a variety of low-paying jobs.
—William Grimes, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
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As a hand surgeon, my mindset has guided me successfully for more than three decades in the operating room.
—Dr. Eric George, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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Leaving a sea of bodies in his wake, Joel found the operating room and confronted the medical team with a simple handgun.
—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2023
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His brother died from cardiac arrest in the operating room.
—Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 June 2023
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Mandell, the radiologist, was called to the operating room at 9:04, according to the suit.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2024
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Lizz Garbett, an operating room nurse, said that things were tough before her son, Simon, transitioned a few years ago.
—Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 7 June 2023
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