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
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 was the second case of frostbite he'd treated that morning, standing beside a makeshift operating table, hidden inside an anonymous-looking cottage near the besieged ruins of the Ukrainian front-line town of Avdiivka.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2024
Passing her finger over the name in gold, Shirley pictured herself as a grown-up, saving a life on the operating table, teaching a class, building a bridge.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
