How to Use the doctor in a Sentence

the doctor

noun
  • Go to the doctor and get checked out.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • What would the doctor have done?
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
  • Both are scary, the doctor said.
    — Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Just don't leave off the doctor.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • But the doctor didn’t say that at all.
    — Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
  • Again, the doctor told me to lose weight.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • And the third thing is, don't be afraid to call the doctor.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Why did the banana go to to the doctor?
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
  • A little cough took him to the doctor.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But the doctor said some of the best reports for the age.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Speaking of which, even the doctor gets in on it.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Go to the dentist, go to the doctor.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But people weren’t just afraid to go to the doctor.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026
  • His father is sick and doesn’t want to go to the doctor.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026
  • My mother had to call the doctor.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2026
  • Will the doctor have the vaccine in stock?
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
  • But this was part of self-care, like going to the doctor.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In this one, this guy played the doctor, and that one, this guy played the priest.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Maybe the doctor wasn’t even the shooter at all.
    — Christopher Spata, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Need to head to the doctor's office?
    — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026
  • Get your checkups, go to the doctor.
    — Bri Buckley, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • So when should parents call the doctor?
    — Robbie Owens, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Even as far as my mid-twenties, the doctor plan was still the thing.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • When the doctor shrugs a little.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Veliz, the doctor who has already lost his job, has been out of work for five months.
    — Michal Ruprecht, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Part of the challenge is just getting to the doctor.
    — Jason Kane, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • For those families, a trip to the doctor could take well over an hour.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2025
  • If the doctor brushes you off or looks at their watch, get a new doctor!
    — Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The first one would be the doctor on my birth certificate, right?
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 31 May 2025
  • Season one is the doctor is the patient.
    — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 2 June 2026

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