How to Use cauterize in a Sentence

cauterize

verb
  • The doctors cauterized the wound.
  • The aim has been to use the fat and the heat to cauterize and seal the wound.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Take damage, light a cigar and use it to cauterize the wound.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Most of the wounds had been cauterized, so there wasn't much bleeding.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2017
  • The past could never quite be shirked, and the future that would cauterize the insults of that past could never get quite close enough.
    — Will Blythe, Esquire, 1 Apr. 2010
  • All of his attempts to cut away his past, to cauterize himself and separate himself from it, would fail.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Where life wounds, art and fellowship can heal, or at the very least, cauterize into the most expressive of scars.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Where life wounds, art and fellowship can heal, or at the very least, cauterize into the most expressive of scars.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • These weren’t just open cuts but gaping, bleeding, raw wounds that a single one-day protest was never going to cauterize.
    — Hannah Seligson, Marie Claire, 17 Jan. 2020
  • First, the brain is mostly freed from the skull; all the dangling arteries, save the carotids, are cauterized or sutured.
    — Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • Elist cauterized more tissue by the pubic bone to make sure the implant would fit there, and at this the patient’s breaths rose into a moan.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
  • The conventional wisdom of the time held that bullet wounds should be cauterized with boiling oil.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Her eye injuries were cauterized to seal them, and she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
    — Mike Ellis, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018
  • This process involved minute tugs and tears, punctuated by pauses to cauterize minor bleeds.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2016
  • Surgical ablation can help, but cauterizing healthy heart cells should be done with caution.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Meanwhile, the screens that have cauterized us are now our primary means of communication.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2020
  • In one gruesome case, surgeons cauterizing a man’s colon ended up igniting a pocket of gas, blowing a six-inch hole in his abdomen.
    — Sam Kean, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
  • To stop the bleeding, a doctor, who had no access to antiseptic or anesthesia, heated the blade of a kitchen knife and cauterized the wound.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • We are left with wounds cauterized by gatekeepers as payment, blistering from the denial of our humanity.
    — Jessica Hoppe, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2023
  • To cauterize the bleeding, the Chinese government is likely to force a restructuring.
    — Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Lovullo said McKay underwent a procedure to cauterize the spleen but is now resting comfortably.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2021
  • During this procedure, a surgeon makes a slit in the cyst and cauterize (burns the area to prevent bleeding) the edges of the incision, allowing the cyst to drain continuously.
    — Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Leaders must immediately cauterize the wound, cutting products and people.
    — Kash Shaikh, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • As Hercules cut off the Hydra’s heads, Iolaus cauterized the stumps with a burning torch to prevent new growth, allowing the pair to defeat the monster.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
  • In any regard, the administration could help cauterize the damage by being honest, transparent and assisting those looking into the matter.
    — John Sipher, Slate Magazine, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Why not cauterize a severed hand, add some just-for-fun cocktail rings, and then shatter the hand’s rigid bones with a hammer or mallet, which will allow the fingers to be wrapped around a colorful ceramic mug with a holly or mistletoe motif?
    — Paul Rudnick, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
  • If the tumor were excised with anything less than perfect precision, with every vessel meticulously cauterized, catastrophic bleeding into the brain could result.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Park credited Samsung Electronics managers for quickly cauterizing the wound left by the Galaxy Note 7.
    — Jeyup S. Kwaak, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Wembanyama has always looked to cauterize weaknesses before accentuating strengths.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • The women, who were allegedly forced to give up collateral in the form of nude photographs and family secrets to join the group, were branded by a cauterizing pen with a logo containing Raniere's initials, according to prosecutors.
    — Jon Campbell, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2018

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