operating table

Example Sentences

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Some desks were buried under stacks of paper, others were as sterile as a surgeon’s operating table.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

"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

In a haunting approach, the parents tiptoed toward an eerily lifelike replica of their child’s body and carefully transferred the silicone doppelgänger to an operating table.

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

It wasn’t there when I arrived this morning, so Mr. Spizz must have sneaked over when I was on the operating table.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos