How to Use polyp in a Sentence

polyp

noun

• The doctor is able to use the scope to both see and cut out the polyps.
  — Women's Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• LaPook was able to cut out the polyp during the colonoscopy.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022
• In 2005, the Moorea reefs faced hordes of crown-of-thorn sea stars, which eat coral polyps.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
• If polyps are found, the colonoscopy may take up to 45 minutes.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
• The footage then went on to show images of the actual scan of the polyp.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022
• A polyp is a growth which may form on the inner wall of the colon or rectum.
  — Beth Wood, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 May 2017
• The bladder polyp, which looks like a pale blue tooth, stores water and glows in the dark.
  — Marjie Lambert, miamiherald, 16 June 2017
• Over the next day and a half, this blob becomes a new polyp, which can then form more medusae.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
• But a coral polyp tried to eat sand only once in 10 trials.
  — Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Oct. 2017
• This causes the polyps to eject them, to ensure short-term survival.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• In return, the microorganisms provide most of the polyp’s food.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 8 Dec. 2020
• It was first approved in 2003 and has been used to treat asthma, nasal polyps and chronic hives.
  — Jonel Aleccia, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
• Sometimes an electric current is used with the wire, depending on the size of the polyp.
  — Ginny Graves, Health.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• Politzer, 64, has one every five years because doctors have found polyps in the past.
  — Sarah Gantz, Philly.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Ninety-five percent of colon cancers arise from that type of polyp that was in your colon.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Most cancers there start as polyps, or growths, on an inner wall.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2017
• This specific kind of polyp is found in people who live with IBD.
  — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024
• More than 48 hours after swallowing the microbeads, the polyps spit them back out.
  — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• The precise interval depends on the number and size of polyps.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
• The main purpose of a colonoscopy is to find and remove these precancerous polyps.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2017
• Most of the time, however, the polyps never progress and remain harmless.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Some of the most common: fibroids, polyps and benign uterine growths.
  — Beth Anne MacAluso, Redbook, 27 Dec. 2017
• Sheinelle Jones recently had surgery for a polyp on her vocal cords.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 25 Feb. 2020
• Two-a-days had just started; a doctor found a polyp in Johnson’s nasal passage.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2020
• The scope’s camera can clearly see polyps, or an out-of-place protrusion of cells, which can then be snipped off.
  — Charlotte Hu, Vox, 4 June 2024
• Corals are animals, not plants; each organism is made up of lots and lots of polyps.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2018
• This meant having another surgery to remove polyps that were found in the lining of my uterus.
  — Kae Zaino, Outside Online, 26 June 2019
• After losing a bet, Ryan Reynolds gets colonoscopy that reveals polyp.
  — Steve Coogan, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022
• Colonoscopies are the most powerful way to find and remove a polyp early.
  — Alisa Hrustic, Fox News, 23 June 2017
• There could be a scenario where scientists can identify a more specific immune response to a growing polyp that can be targeted with a blood test.
  — Charlotte Hu, Vox, 4 June 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024