How to Use scalpel in a Sentence

scalpel

noun

• One did it with a scalpel and one did it with an AK-47.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• The question is, will that person trim it with a scalpel or a cleaver?
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 18 Apr. 2021
• Then, your doctor will use a scalpel to pierce the stye and remove the contents of the bump with a curette.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 15 Jan. 2019
• Claire heats up her scalpel while Jamie offers Tom some whiskey and a stick to bite down on for the pain.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2022
• Much of Western New York went untouched by the Democrats’ scalpel.
  — Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
• The first requires a scalpel to one’s heart and the second requires one lay down their sword.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
• She’s hoping to have the same kind of talent someday with a scalpel.
  — Tony Baranek, Daily Southtown, 30 June 2018
• In modern times people have even used it to make scalpels.
  — PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
• Art was right behind her, swiping the scalpel through the air, trying to cut her.
  — William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
• The desert was entirely black now and cooling, the scalpel scrape of the sun finally off the land.
  — Paolo Bacigalupi, Wired News, 27 May 2015
• Michael felt that man cut into his belly with a scalpel.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, WIRED, 8 May 2018
• Dr. Albert Chi even called out for scotch tape as if asking for a scalpel.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 22 June 2017
• But keep in mind: When the tool at hand is a scalpel and not a needle, the result isn't going to wear off in a few months.
  — Jens Ingvarsson, Allure, 15 Aug. 2018
• Baseball is doing its best to dull its knife, which once was scalpel-sharp.
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 May 2018
• Cutting and splicing the genome could be a great deal cheaper than using scalpels and lasers on the body.
  — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
• These days, a scalpel and an appointment aren't needed to try out it out.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 8 Aug. 2020
• Indeed, Frangello also takes the scalpel to her own chest.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• Maria and her team stayed five months, working with scalpels, slowly peeling away the paint.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 30 May 2018
• My brushes and palette knife are the scalpels of a skillful surgeon.
  — courant.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• But a 31 percent cut would take a meat ax to the department, not a scalpel, these people say.
  — Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• There are graphic depictions of surgery, including a drill to the skull and a scalpel to skin.
  — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• The video, with a team of Black women wielding scalpels, is a gory comeuppance.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• Before the scalpels, the forceps, and the surgical needles, Tom Jones knew steel.
  — Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, 15 May 2017
• No one could prove that a scalpel had slipped because of distraction.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• In fetal surgery, the slightest squeeze or tilt of a scalpel can be the difference between life and death.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
• Inside his car, police found a scalpel, X-rays and orders for medicine.
  — Los Angeles Times, oregonlive.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Of the dozens of devices implanted in his body over the years, most were inserted with his own scalpel.
  — Wired, 30 Aug. 2019
• The doctors’ sense of humor and compassion turn out to be just as admirable as their skills with a scalpel.
  — Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• Really that's just a fancy name for what amounts to a scalpel facial.
  — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 8 June 2018
• Others, like Honey’s, were dissected with scalpels and bone saws, to be distributed on the open market.
  — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024