How to Use operating table in a Sentence

operating table

noun

• When the missile hit the nearby building the wave threw him a couple of meters away from the operating table.
  — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 26 July 2024
• Even with the best medical care in the world, some patients bleed out in less than 10 minutes on the operating table.
  — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023
• The surgery had taken place on a Friday, and by Monday the same patient was back on the operating table with a broken hip.
  — Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2023
• Still supine on the operating table, Fisher was woken by a team of doctors eager to hear from him.
  — Zachary Siegel, Harper's Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022
• The people on his operating table kept getting younger.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• The river is on the operating table getting those blockages removed.
  — The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024
• Beyond learning how to stop the shooter, trainees focus on getting victims to an operating table.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• For years, Dempsey played the dreamiest doctor on one of television's biggest shows, making viewers swoon with nothing more than a look across the operating table or a smirk in the elevator.
  — EW.com, 8 Nov. 2023
• At the beating heart of it all, of course, are the two cars, which, in the hours before races, are like patients on an operating table, carefully but constantly tended to, soothed, adjusted, tweaked, pampered.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
• In 11th grade, while peers prepared college essays and picked out prom outfits, Alfa was on the operating table getting brain surgery due to SCD complications.
  — Essence, 25 Sep. 2023
• The title derives from a line in the Hippocratic Oath warning against medical hubris, and the novel’s signature move is to carry questions of ethics, duty, love and faith directly to the drama of the operating table.
  — Sam Sacks, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• The doctor pictured at the operating table was now almost unrecognizable to him.
  — Euan Ward, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• Montgomery, who has performed thousands of transplants, walked up to the operating table and gently lowered the organ into Primavera's abdomen.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Image Over thousands of complicated cases on the operating table, Bingener-Casey learned to separate her feelings and her work.
  — Victor Llorente Charley Locke, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• One surgeon, whom The Post is identifying only by his first name of Wai because of concern for his safety, said several children died before making it to his operating table.
  — Rebecca Tan and Cape Diamond, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Those videos frequently included patients who had just undergone surgery, still anesthetized and unconscious on the operating table, their breasts and buttocks often blurred or thinly covered.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• LeMond landed in a Davis, Calif., hospital with approximately 60 iron shotgun pellets embedded in his body (resulting in overwhelming blood loss) and was saved on the operating table.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• In a scene that likely made donation professionals cringe, Izzy grimaced on the operating table as the physician inserted a needle into her hip and aggressively rotated it.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• The most serious blow to Russell’s health hit last spring when doctors revived him on a Washington Hospital Center operating table during surgery to amputate a diabetic toe.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024