How to Use suture in a Sentence

suture

1 of 2 noun
  • The incision is closed with just a few sutures.
    — Essence, 7 Jan. 2026
  • My sister had a deep cut in her forehead that would require sutures.
    — Robert Radin, Marie Claire, 18 May 2015
  • Next, Taylor had to find a suture thread that would hold onto the dye.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
  • My top-surgery scars are tattooed over, the suture marks no longer visible.
    — Thomas Page McBee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Jedi suffered wounds to his head and around one of his eyes, which were treated with sutures.
    — Anna Buchmann, sacbee, 21 May 2018
  • Frazee received sutures for the bites in the emergency room, records show.
    — Brad Branan, sacbee.com, 6 May 2017
  • The skull is there, but with only some of the jagged suture-lines that run outwards from its center.
    — Jack Hartnell, Time, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Patty’s incision was closed with the same kind of tiny sutures used on human eyes.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • The problem was that those surgeries often required sutures and took longer to heal.
    — Pasquale Hinrichs, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
  • First is the ability to cut and suture in deeper, tighter quarters.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The fat is processed, prepped, then re-injected into the area, which is then closed by suture.
    — Beth Ashley, refinery29.com, 8 July 2022
  • The fat is processed, prepped, and then re-injected into the area, which is then closed by suture.
    — Beth Ashley, refinery29.com, 4 July 2022
  • The sutures and location shown in the photo does appear to be a knife cut to the layman.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • The sutures, which eventually dissolve, act like strings, pulling up the skin.
    — Emily Dudding, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Mar. 2016
  • It is advised that sutures be removed within fourteen days.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • My eyes were practically swollen shut and my face was covered in bruises and sutures.
    — Serena Daniari, Allure, 23 Mar. 2019
  • Using a needle, a doctor puts two to six tiny sutures beneath the skin from the top of each ear to the jawline.
    — Emily Dudding, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Mar. 2016
  • There are a series of sutures going from one part of the stomach to the bottom of the stomach all the way to the top.
    — John Torres, NBC News, 5 June 2017
  • But in this case, the suture is simply threaded through the skin without a knot, which is why cones or barbs are needed to lift the skin.
    — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Sadly, Walter can't come because his sutures won't hold if he's carried out.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 15 July 2023
  • Daniels was given sutures for a laceration to his right eyebrow.
    — Molly Sullivan, sacbee, 14 June 2018
  • Nor the material of the sutures.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Arthrex has recalled a knee replacement device and a type of suture anchors in recent years.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 May 2021
  • The graft is secured with sutures and the incision in the elbow is stitched back together.
    — Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The group would have two minutes to make a small incision in the animal, set the tracker and suture the wound closed.
    — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • However, the deep sutures that surgeons place can take eight to 12 weeks or more to fully dissolve.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 27 Jan. 2026
  • When the sutures dissolved, my father, who had a bleeding disorder, went into shock.
    — Donna Jackson Nakazawa, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • This training taught them to focus their gaze on the exact location of the knot before looping the sutures.
    — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The sutures hold everything in place until your own natural healing maintains the ear for the rest of your life.
    — Dr. Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 7 May 2018
  • Because the face is numb for a time following surgery, patients don’t feel the sutures in their skin, even as they’re being removed.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 16 Mar. 2026

suture

2 of 2 verb
  • The surgeon sutured the incision.
  • The surgeon sutured the wounds but knew the arm would have to be amputated.
    — Sarah El Deeb, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The nerves can be sutured back together to minimize pain, Bank said, but most breast surgeons haven’t been trained to do this.
    — Brett Kelman, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The nerves can be sutured back together to minimize pain, Bank said, but most breast surgeons haven’t been trained to do this.
    — CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Treatment typically starts with clipping the fur around the injury, cleaning the area and, if needed, suturing the skin.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Researchers compared the performance of the autonomous bot and a human surgeon on the same suturing task and found that the bot's stitches were more uniform and made a tighter seal.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
  • The issue was surrounding his leg amputation surgery, a procedure that involves stretching the muscles and suturing them to provide the bone with padding.
    — Jacob Louraine, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Working primarily with rubbery mock-ups of human tissue, experimental robots have sutured, cleaned wounds, and cut out tumors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
  • In his group's newest experiment with learning from demonstrations, the da Vinci recorded data while eight surgeons of various skill levels used its robotic arms to perform the four-stitch suturing task.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
  • The travelogue portion of Walking the Bypass is sutured, sometimes maladroitly, to a history of the Crown’s abuses of Indigenous peoples.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The company says the system would be able to perform hemorrhage control, wound repair, chest decompression, shrapnel extraction, and field suturing, stabilizing the patient until evacuation can be carried out.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026

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