sawbones

Example Sentences

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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb.

From Time Magazine Archive

She added indifferently, "There's another sawbones sixty miles farther on."

From The Lady Doc by Lockhart, Caroline