scalpel

Example Sentences

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I watch as a lab technician separates young shoots with a sterile scalpel and forceps.

From BBC

Akutagawa, recalled Kurosawa in his memoir, “goes into the depths of the human heart as if with a surgeon’s scalpel, laying bare its dark complexities and bizarre twists.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But few legislators could handle a lawmaking scalpel like Burton.

From Los Angeles Times

A surgeon's scalpel to both knee and hamstring.

From BBC

When a dropped scalpel impales a surgeon’s foot during a procedure, she can only groan and keep cutting and sewing as the blade sticks out of her foot.

From Salon