How to Use ultrasound in a Sentence

ultrasound

noun
  • She showed me an ultrasound of her unborn baby.
  • She had an ultrasound this morning.
  • They used ultrasound to examine his heart.
  • She had an ultrasound exam this morning.
  • The ultrasound found a cyst on her left ovary, the lawsuit states.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 July 2023
  • The ultrasound of his heart wouldn’t hurt, Eapen promised.
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The dating ultrasound goes well, but what if the 11 week one doesn’t?
    Amanda Allen, ELLE, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Then came the ultrasound at 18 weeks, and their world turned upside down.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • The ultrasound showed that there was a sac filled with fluid on the baby’s neck.
    Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • The ultrasound showed about half a dozen cysts inside both breasts.
    Rebekah Kuschmider, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The rest of the ultrasound wasn’t so bad, though: The familiar feeling of gel on her stomach, the sight of her uterus in grayscale.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
  • But when the doctor performed the ultrasound, there was no sound.
    The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2021
  • But the ultrasound tech refused to sign off on the exception.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The mammogram did not pick up the cancer; the ultrasound did.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2022
  • Phillips' last ultrasound had been one week and three days before, and the fetus had a heartbeat then.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In the clip, Sterling held on tight to her brother's hand, as well as a set of ultrasound photos.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 July 2024
  • Through an ultrasound and biopsy, the doctor revealed that Ware had a growth in her chest.
    al, 8 Oct. 2021
  • But when the doctor performed the ultrasound, there was no sound, and she was told to come back the next day for her procedure.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • At that time, there was no ultrasound, so to be pregnant was much more abstract.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
  • In the post, the family is seen smiling on the front porch steps of a home while Robertson holds images of an ultrasound.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The same goes for the ultrasound technician who first detected the group of four and delivered the news to a shocked Ness.
    Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2022
  • But an ultrasound four months later showed that most of the baby’s organs were outside the body.
    Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • My doctor rushes and almost injects the sperm before the nurse has the ultrasound in place.
    refinery29.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The same goes for the ultrasound technician who briefly abandoned Ness.
    Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
  • By week 18, her MFM was seeing more and more issues on ultrasound.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Patrick was dressed in light colors as were the children, who held their mom’s ultrasound photos.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2024
  • One day in 2017, Kisa, pregnant again, planned a visit to show Mr. Holmes the ultrasound of his granddaughter.
    New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Kimberley helps wipe up her legs and gets her to a nurse, who performs an ultrasound.
    Nick Schager, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The ultrasound revealed that her placenta was covering her cervix—a condition, known as placenta previa, that heightened her risk of hemorrhage or preterm birth.
    Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The carousel also included individual images of the ultrasound and its digital enhancement.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024

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