AMPUTATE in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for AMPUTATE, such as:
1. To save his life, doctors amputated his legs.
2. Mortification set in, and they had to amputate him.
3. They had to amputate his foot to free him from the wreckage.
4. Old Dr. Fontaine was convalescing slowly from an amputated arm.
5. In the end they had to amputate his foot to free him from the wrecked car.
2. Mortification set in, and they had to amputate him.
3. They had to amputate his foot to free him from the wreckage.
4. Old Dr. Fontaine was convalescing slowly from an amputated arm.
5. In the end they had to amputate his foot to free him from the wrecked car.
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Meanings and Examples of AMPUTATE
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amputate
v. cut off part of body, especially by surgery; prune
Classic Sentence:
1 Mortification set in, and they had to amputate him.
2 He drew nearer and saw that the old man had only one leg bent under him, the other had been amputated above the knee.
3 The wounded man was shown his amputated leg stained with clotted blood and with the boot still on.
4 In the miserable, sobbing, enfeebled man whose leg had just been amputated, he recognized Anatole Kuragin.
5 Old Dr. Fontaine was convalescing slowly from an amputated arm.
6 If he had thought the regiment was about to be annihilated perhaps he could have amputated himself from it.
7 Half a dozen fingers pointed at the amputated wheel--he stared at it for a moment and then looked upward as though he suspected that it had dropped from the sky.
8 Chloroform was so scarce now it was used only for the worst amputations and opium was a precious thing, used only to ease the dying out of life, not the living out of pain.
9 But, though for ever mounted on that stump, never a stump-speech does the poor whaleman make; but, with downcast eyes, stands ruefully contemplating his own amputation.
Example Sentence:
1 In the end they had to amputate his foot to free him from the wrecked car.
2 They had to amputate his foot to free him from the wreckage.
3 When the doctors had to amputate the young man's leg to prevent the spread of cancer, he did not let the loss of a limb keep him from participating in sports.
4 To save his life, doctors amputated his legs.