sawbones

Example Sentences

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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

Answers the sawbones: "Not unless your seeing-eye dog goes lame."

From Time Magazine Archive

Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

What pricked him on from apprenticeship under a toping village sawbones to postgraduate work at the State of Winnemac's great Sears-Roebuckian university was an itching to learn, to know, to do.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had grudgingly allowed Clancey, the family sawbones, to call in a psychologist friend, Philip Warwick.

From The Short Life by Donovan, Francis