How to Use surgical mask in a Sentence
surgical mask
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Above a blue surgical mask, two dark eyes pinned me with a look of utter fury.
—Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
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The message was that the public doesn't need a surgical mask, but that health care workers do.
—Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
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The two men were wearing black rain jackets and black surgical masks.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
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At one of the stops a group of young men got on, all wearing surgical masks or face coverings.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 12 May 2024
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Instead, surgical masks, KN95 and KF94 masks are the ideal options for kids and adults.
—Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
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In some of the incidents he was seen wearing a lanyard and a surgical mask, police said.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
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Cloth, dust and surgical masks don’t protect from the harmful particles in smoke.
—Gwozniac, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2023
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At one meeting, a man in a Grim Reaper mask tried, unsuccessfully, to light a surgical mask on fire.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
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Right from the very beginning, when the first blue surgical masks started to clog the gutters, the vast extremes of alley life were stunning to behold.
—Hazlitt, 16 May 2022
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Police described the suspect as a man, wearing a surgical mask and all dark clothing.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2024
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Meanwhile, surgical masks, paper dust masks, scarves and bandanas won’t protect the lungs from PM2.5.
—Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 29 June 2023
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When Weisz enters a scene, twice, wearing the same red surgical mask and robe-like scrubs as Irons does in the original, the déjà vu is nearly overwhelming.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2023
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Perkins and the three females were allegedly wearing surgical masks on their faces and each was carrying a bag.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 16 Feb. 2024
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Only one is wearing a surgical mask as the others make little effort to conceal their faces.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
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Surveillance video showed a woman whose face was obscured by a hoodie and surgical mask breaking in and dousing the floors with a gasoline can.
—Kate Zernike, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
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But a surgical mask, scarf or bandanna won’t do much to protect you from pollutants.
—Liam Stack, New York Times, 29 June 2023
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They are only allowed to wear flimsy surgical masks with ear loops provided to them.
—Judy Stone, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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And the doors burst open just as the man began to speak in my ear and all these beautiful children came running out, many holding coats in their arms, blue surgical masks dangling from many faces.
—Ben Lerner, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
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More than a dozen men arrived on foot and motorbikes, looking like an avian SWAT team, and donned disposable jumpsuits and surgical masks.
—Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
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Some of the Balkan country’s top leaders came out in surgical masks to fist-bump the Chinese diplomats and to formally thank Beijing for providing crucial help.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
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Video shows thieves in hoodies and surgical masks dumping perfume boxes and display bottles into black trash bags.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
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Bailey is behind Ellie, playing a nurse with a surgical mask covering her face.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 13 Mar. 2023
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Out of 50 people seen practicing yoga or jogging, only one wore a surgical mask.
—Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
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This early iteration of Barbie, M.D. wore teal scrubs and a matching surgical mask for her first foray into medicine.
—Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
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Barnes, dressed in black, is looking over a rack of chips when the gunman, standing by the door wearing a hoodie and surgical mask, begins arguing with a heavyset man in a black jacket with white designs on its back and sleeves, the video shows.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2024
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Cloth and surgical masks, however, won’t be as effective.
—Li Zhou, Vox, 14 May 2024
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Troopers have released photos of both the vehicle believed to be involved as well as a suspect seen outside of a retail store wearing a hooded jacket and surgical mask.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2024
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Images of him kneeling on the floor, in a suit and a surgical mask, picking up empty water bottles and scraps of paper, went viral and came to encapsulate everything Trumpism was not.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
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At Monday’s demonstration, most protesters wore surgical masks, and those at the edges of the moving encampment held makeshift wooden shields or set up chicken wire to barricade themselves in.
—Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
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Videos posted online show cops in riot gear and demonstrators, many either wearing surgical masks or obscuring their faces with headscarves, shoving each other in the smoke.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
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