How to Use operating table in a Sentence

operating table

noun
  • There’s plenty of blame to go around for how so much died on the operating table here.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Beneath us, on an operating table, a brain pulsed through a roughly six-inch hole carved by a bone saw.
    — Martha Raddatz, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
  • For those who do make it onto the operating table, around 50% will die during surgery.
    — New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2025
  • When the missile hit the nearby building the wave threw him a couple of meters away from the operating table.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 26 July 2024
  • Each time that happens, patients must return to the operating table.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Still supine on the operating table, Fisher was woken by a team of doctors eager to hear from him.
    — Zachary Siegel, Harper's Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Nothing is worse than trying to cozy up on the sofa, but you’re being blinded by a sterile operating table glow.
    — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Even with the best medical care in the world, some patients bleed out in less than 10 minutes on the operating table.
    — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The river is on the operating table getting those blockages removed.
    — The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Beyond learning how to stop the shooter, trainees focus on getting victims to an operating table.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Sweet Denzell can’t get over the fact that a man is on an operating table, with his intestines spilled out everywhere, and is not screaming in pain.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The surgery had taken place on a Friday, and by Monday the same patient was back on the operating table with a broken hip.
    — Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2023
  • On Saturday, it was confirmed that Johnson has steered clear of the operating table.
    — Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Lamm, whose first child had been born five months earlier, watched the dire-wolf births on FaceTime as James trained his phone on the operating table.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • According to the outlet, the film’s first look opens with the bride falling down a flight of stairs and waking up on an operating table after breaking multiple bones.
    — Angel Saunders, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Officers in the gallery began crying when an image of Jonathan Diller on the operating table was displayed.
    — Alice Gainer, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The doctor pictured at the operating table was now almost unrecognizable to him.
    — Euan Ward, New York Times, 8 July 2023
  • Sometimes the doubts were raised by other medical professionals while a patient was already on the operating table.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Also, unnatural herds of crabs roam the land, and a brain-dead patient who’s about to have his organs harvested suddenly revives on the operating table.
    — Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • While on the operating table, Beau developed a blood clot, which Winston handled so speedily that Jules was left awestruck.
    — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Every minute Abibu is open on the operating table increases the risk of surgical complications.
    — Sophia Li, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Eventually, someone did come, and the two girls were rescued and taken to a hospital, where Jeanine died on the operating table from one of the puncture wounds on her neck.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Medical advances, like drones delivering blood units on the battlefield, and lessons surgeons have learned treating many soldiers on the operating table.
    — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • A little over two years later, Murano was on the operating table, undergoing a similar surgery.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2026
  • Its road to commercial success hasn't always been smooth; patients have brought lawsuits regarding mishaps on the operating table, and one study found that such mishaps were underreported.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
  • For years, Dempsey played the dreamiest doctor on one of television's biggest shows, making viewers swoon with nothing more than a look across the operating table or a smirk in the elevator.
    — EW.com, 8 Nov. 2023
  • At the beating heart of it all, of course, are the two cars, which, in the hours before races, are like patients on an operating table, carefully but constantly tended to, soothed, adjusted, tweaked, pampered.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Advertisement Sahba died on an operating table at a nearby hospital.
    — Kay Armin Serjoie, Time, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Montgomery, who has performed thousands of transplants, walked up to the operating table and gently lowered the organ into Primavera's abdomen.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Abby is the daughter of the doctor who was supposed to operate on Ellie but whom Joel shot point blank as Ellie lay unconscious on the operating table.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Apr. 2025

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