How to Use doctor in a Sentence

doctor

1 of 2 noun
  • How long will you be at the doctor?
  • I saw her at the doctor's last week.
  • He needed medicine but refused to go to a doctor.
  • Most of the faculty members at this college are doctors in their fields.
  • She was under doctor's orders not to return to work.
  • Dr. Smith, can you explain the exam requirements again?
  • The eye doctor turned out to be right.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Many adults don’t go to a doctor.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
  • When in doubt, talk to a doctor first.
    — Ciara Lucas, SELF, 9 Feb. 2026
  • One day there was a doctor, who took me aside.
    — Caleb Crain, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • His doctors weren't sure why his blood count was off.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Talk to your doctor about what this may mean for you.
    — Marnie Goodfriend, Flow Space, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Still, for many doctors, burnout is not just about time.
    — Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Speak with your doctor about the best option for you.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Take it by talking with your doctor.
    — Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The boy's doctors now face his budget cuts.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Robby fits him like, well, a doctor’s glove at this point.
    — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 2 June 2026
  • And doctors didn’t spot any health concerns.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Finding the right doctor takes time.
    — Crystal Cene, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But doctors didn't listen at first.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For the first time, Teske felt like a doctor had all the time in the world.
    — Sadia Rafiquddin, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023
  • And if nothing seems to be working, check in with a doctor.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The first step in getting checked is seeing your doctor.
    — Lauren Pastrana, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Other doctors did not want to discuss such painful trade-offs.
    — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • His doctor was stumped about what was causing the problems.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Only one lawyer, and not a single doctor, had been charged.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Walker had to wait for weeks while doctors figured out the cause of those nodes.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Your doctor can help determine the right dosage for your needs.
    — Ashley Abramson, Health, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The idea is that a doctor might give their patients a shot every year or two.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Some who were once lawyers or doctors or scientists.
    — Molly Aitken, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026

doctor

2 of 2 verb
  • He had time to doctor his wounds.
  • I think somebody doctored the punch.
  • She doctored the sick child until the physician arrived.
  • They were accused of doctoring the company's financial records.
  • This strikes me as a good sauce to doctor up with some meat or sausage.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
  • And that's why the sky in the back of Rob's was, doctored.
    — Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2026
  • By doctoring their stones, of course.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Between each loop, runners will eat, doctor their feet, maybe steal a quick nap.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 26 May 2018
  • There had been some speculation ahead of the sale that the watch had been doctored.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Fields offers more than a dozen ways to doctor up a box of Jiffy cornbread mix.
    — Nicole Hvidsten, Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
  • The siblings made sure their dad, and later their mom, didn’t go alone to doctor visits.
    — Dallas News, 18 May 2022
  • To be clear, the video was not doctored in the sense that it was digitally altered.
    — Robert Farley, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Try doctoring old scrapes with both estrus and tarsal as a challenge to other bucks.
    — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Byrum denied that happened and proved to Gran that the photo was doctored.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The search is on by major league umpires for sticky stuff that pitchers might use to doctor baseballs.
    — Stephen Hawkins, ajc, 21 June 2021
  • Mom doctored us up with pineapple juice for scratchy throats and sinus infections.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Almost anything can be doctored with a little — or a lot — of heat, depending on your taste.
    — Becky Krystal, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Went to doctor today for tumor marker test and bone density scan.
    — Fox News, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Bijan Stephen has two more experts to say that yes, the Acosta video was doctored.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 10 Nov. 2018
  • For the mayonnaise, try doctoring up your favorite brand with the recipes below.
    — Ann Maloney, nola.com, 5 June 2019
  • Nichols doctored bank records to hide the nature of her purchases, officials say.
    — Sarah Hager, Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The Norwegian scheme to doctor the crotches of ski-jumping suits?
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026
  • There also was evidence that the company produced videos of its trucks that were doctored to hide their flaws.
    — Larry Neumeister, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Gamma knife surgery uses gamma rays made from an isotope of cobalt that’s doctored to be radioactive.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
  • There’s also a nose-tingling honey mustard and a plum sauce doctored up with roasted apples.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Tag along to doctor’s appointments and classes, with their permission.
    — Noel Cody, Essence, 25 June 2021
  • It can be harvested too early as plant nectar, doctored up, and sold falsely as the end product, honey.
    — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In light of the Astros’ mess, the milder forms of cheating — such as pitchers doctoring the ball — sound pretty tame.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The image has a range of clear visual inconsistencies that suggest it was doctored.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • On the negative side, doctored recruiting film is also becoming a thing.
    — Antonio Morales, New York Times, 1 May 2026

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