operating table
Example Sentences
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The procedure they thought would spare them a complicated surgery leads some to the operating table anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The patient is sedated and covered up on the operating table.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
"Before you know it, you are on the operating table having your prostate removed – and we see examples of that all the time," Prof Hamdy said.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
Among the goods that Fried said are shipped in cargo holds are harvested lungs that need to be delivered to an operating table, temperature-sensitive and radiological pharmaceuticals and parts needed for assembly lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
It was like being on an operating table, in the full glare; like being on a stage.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
