How to Use operating room in a Sentence

operating room

noun
  • The tragedy does not end in the operating room.
    — Myron Rolle, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The lungs were deemed good, and my mom was wheeled into the operating room.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In the operating room, a space where lives can hang in the balance, calm reigns.
    — Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The staff tried to revive him in the operating room but could not pull him back from the brink of death.
    — Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 June 2023
  • In the corner of the operating room lies a kidney dish filled with blood.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
  • How many times when things went south in the operating room, did the last moments of that flight come back to me?
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Miller had to wait for it, wait for it, wait for about a month before going to the operating room.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Two weeks later, their baby girl was in the operating room.
    — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • In the clip, the mom of two is running into the operating room topless.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • This can be done in either an office setting or the operating room.
    — Carrie Madormo, Health, 11 July 2025
  • By the time the surgeon entered the operating room, the wrong leg had already been prepped.
    — Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The family stays overnight, and by morning the child is in the operating room.
    — Rachel Pearson, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
  • In the operating room, a beautiful nurse with brown skin and green eyes, asked me my favorite song.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Williams was rushed to the operating room, where surgeons removed about six feet of his intestines.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In an operating room, for example, anyone can call a time-out.
    — Caitlin Rivers, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2024
  • That way, at the end of a surgery, operating room staff can wave a wand over the patient and get an alert if any sponges are still inside.
    — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2025
  • That close inspection reveals features that are too small to be seen in an operating room.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Much of the factory was supposed to be as sterile as an operating room.
    — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 17 June 2025
  • Ryan Jeffers was a happy man in the operating room.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 1 June 2026
  • But of those who leaving the operating room alive, 80% have survival rate of at least five years.
    — Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
  • She was brought into the operating room on a stretcher, tucked beneath a metallic gold sheet to keep her warm.
    — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • For most patients, a surgery does not begin with an incision or end when they are wheeled out of the operating room.
    — Nandan Lad, Time, 27 Apr. 2026
  • No one in the operating room mentioned the patient’s skin tone, which was a striking orange.
    — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The patient was lowered onto the table, re-gowned, and wheeled out of the operating room.
    — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Natasha Miller was in the operating room when Hoover was wheeled in for the organ retrieval surgery.
    — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
  • With the Neuropixels in place, the team played audio in the operating room.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 6 May 2026
  • His home has an operating room and an unusual menagerie, including a bulldog with the back end of a goose.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • For instance, the mock operating room has a gray floor with the operating area outlined in red.
    — Emily Brindley, Dallas Morning News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Three others have left the operating room and one remains there, Richardson said.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
  • But at the hospital, she was told his case was hopeless; the operating room was already overwhelmed.
    — Gaya Gupta, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024

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