How to Use amputate in a Sentence

amputate

verb
  • His arm was badly injured and had to be amputated.
  • The crash caused his right leg to be amputated above the knee.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
  • Tried to wrestle me from his bed to not amputate.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • To save his life, doctors had to amputate the ends of his limbs.
    — Sam Bradpiece, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
  • At one point, he was told doctors might have to amputate his leg.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Doctors were forced to amputate his right leg above the knee.
    — Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The doctors saved his left leg but had to amputate part of his right limb.
    — Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • This is where fans find out his right leg has been amputated from the knee down.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 11 Apr. 2025
  • So, they couldn't be left in her body, so they were amputated.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • And a few fans had limbs amputated.
    — Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
  • The man’s leg had to be amputated.
    — Zohreh Saberi, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
  • Surgeons saved his life by amputating his left leg from the knee down.
    — Kevin Cook, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • With all the nerves and veins in his left arm destroyed, it was amputated.
    — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • His right front paw will be amputated in the next month or so, said Todd.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The crash broke both of Tyler's legs, which had to be amputated.
    — Samantha West, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
  • There were some of the guys that went back with me that had their feet amputated; some maybe had just one foot.
    — Nancy Stearns Theiss, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Two monks were injured, and one had his leg amputated.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • One of the survivors was a woman who had to have her arms amputated.
    — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Two monks were injured; one had his leg amputated.
    — CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Naeem said some of the wounded had severe burns and many had limbs amputated.
    — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Doctors had to remove seven teeth and amputate his left arm at the mid-humerus bone.
    — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The injuries were so severe that the cat's leg had to be amputated.
    — baltimoresun.com, 11 May 2017
  • If an injury was near the femur rather than the tibia, ants would amputate.
    — Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 3 July 2024
  • The surgeon sutured the wounds but knew the arm would have to be amputated.
    — Sarah El Deeb, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Colonel Taha made it to the far bank, and five days later his right leg was amputated.
    — Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • The new surgery came about a week after Corero's right leg was amputated.
    — Leigh Scheps, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Soon, the infection grows worse, and the only way to save the child's life is to amputate.
    — Michelle McMurry-Heath and henry Skinner, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Three people had to have at least one leg amputated, and 11 died.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Surgeons at the hospital had to amputate the lower part of his left leg last fall.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2022
  • One of her legs had to be amputated and her second leg was almost removed.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025

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