How to Use triage in a Sentence

triage

noun
  • Nurses do triage in the emergency room.
  • And running triage like a boss.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The stakes for getting that triage right are real.
    — Stephen Johnson, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Then, focus on triage at the customer site.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • It’s been 121 hours since his mother left him at triage.
    — Ashley Andreou, STAT, 22 June 2026
  • Time to do triage on the houseplants that have spent the summer out on the front steps.
    — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Then came 1942, and glamour gave way to triage.
    — Lisa A. Beach, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The next step in owning the problem is to triage the problem.
    — John Knotts, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • A lot of grim faces and a triage approach to releasing the movie.
    — Yohana Desta, HWD, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Seymour spent most of his short time in the Senate in triage mode.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Then the evening shift doctors took over the front and took in the new patients and did the triage.
    — Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
  • One hundred and twenty-two hours since his mother left him at triage.
    — Ashley Andreou, STAT, 22 June 2026
  • On a ten-point scale, the pain score patients reported at triage was nine.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That’s not engagement—that’s triage.
    — Jason Walker Psyd, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The slowness of encryption forces them to triage.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But when there aren’t enough tests to go around, public health officials need to triage.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The triage lead sorts victims into those that don’t need help now, do need help now, and can’t be helped.
    — George Bradt, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Things weren’t quite as good in the Twins’ triage unit — er, clubhouse — before the game.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • The hallway was used to treat and triage wounded and dying children.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The city also lacked a war room to triage emergent cases—a gap that soon proved glaring.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 23 June 2021
  • Injuries have turned the roster into a walking triage unit.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • These are lineup wounds the Yankees likely can’t triage overnight.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022
  • These towns are not flush with money and have to do their best to triage which projects move to the front of the growing queue.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The idea is to triage and let some lesser crimes go to keep caseloads workable, while still achieving justice.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 9 July 2022
  • There are still problems to triage, Niederhoffer said.
    — Jack Kubinec, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The first stop for patients would be a triage tent with eight beds, each of which has monitors and oxygen tanks.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The second by people desperate for a place to triage just after the storm had passed.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • Amid the onslaught, news triage is as much a survival mechanism as a civic duty.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
  • What is our triage rubric, and can a new manager apply it without guessing?
    — Dan Haiem, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Instead, she and Rachel are forced to conduct triage under a tent outside.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 3 Jan. 2025

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