How to Use triage in a Sentence

triage

noun

• Nurses do triage in the emergency room.
• The next step in owning the problem is to triage the problem.
  — John Knotts, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Time to do triage on the houseplants that have spent the summer out on the front steps.
  — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• A lot of knowledge work is drudgery, like email triage.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• A lot of grim faces and a triage approach to releasing the movie.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 24 Apr. 2017
• The doctors who scrambled to rescue and triage survivors in 2015 look back in search of lessons.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 6 July 2018
• Helping with the triage was a third-year resident, Samuel L. Katz.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• The hallway was used to treat and triage wounded and dying children.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• The notion of triage was a creation of battlefield medicine during the Crimean War.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017
• The city also lacked a war room to triage emergent cases—a gap that soon proved glaring.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 23 June 2021
• Staff at the prison found Cook and transported him to the triage and treatment unit, officials said.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
• But when there aren’t enough tests to go around, public health officials need to triage.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2020
• The second by people desperate for a place to triage just after the storm had passed.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• The idea is to triage and let some lesser crimes go to keep caseloads workable, while still achieving justice.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 9 July 2022
• These are lineup wounds the Yankees likely can’t triage overnight.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022
• Three field hospitals and triage tents are being set up in North Sinai near the Rafah crossing.
  — WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
• How many lives have the cops of Minneapolis saved by being the first on the scene to triage the victims of gunshots?
  — Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
• They will be used as triage centers and sobering stations.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• Amid the onslaught, news triage is as much a survival mechanism as a civic duty.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
• Three field hospitals and triage tents are being set up in North Sinai near the Rafah border crossing.
  — WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
• Tree services large and small were scrambling just to triage Zeta's damage.
  — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• But with the power output decreasing by about four watts a year, NASA has been forced into triage mode.
  — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
• As issues evolve and tickets emerge, GitHub is the best way to migrate the conversation from triage to working on a fix.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• These clever apps and devices will help you to find your way, triage an injury and generally stay out of trouble on the trail.
  — Nikita Richardson, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
• These clever apps and devices will help you to find your way, triage an injury and generally stay out of trouble on the trail.
  — Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• These were the triage decisions the Border Patrol now made every night: whom to transport to safety, and whom to leave in the desert until the next shift.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The overrun hospital would triage him, and the hospice staff would move in and put him down like a dog, thanks to his annoying daughters.
  — Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• Paramedics set up a triage area at the scene and transported the injured to seven hospitals for treatment.
  — Sophie Reardon, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2022
• During the interview on Fox News, Jackson said his sister-in-law encouraged his nephew to go to the triage tent, where he was treated.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 14 July 2024
• So Schulman and his executives gathered for a six-hour whiteboarding session to perform triage.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024