How to Use amputate in a Sentence

amputate

verb
Definition of amputatenext
Synonyms for amputatenext
  • His arm was badly injured and had to be amputated.
  • The agency said medics had to amputate an arm to free her.
    — Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Zeynep Bilginsoy, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The doctors saved his left leg but had to amputate part of his right limb.
    — Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Soon, the infection grows worse, and the only way to save the child's life is to amputate.
    — Michelle McMurry-Heath and henry Skinner, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Doctors were forced to amputate his right leg above the knee.
    — Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • His right front paw will be amputated in the next month or so, said Todd.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • To free himself, he was forced to amputate his right arm.
    — Edmund Vallance, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
  • With all the nerves and veins in his left arm destroyed, it was amputated.
    — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As a result, both of his legs were amputated at the thigh.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Tvrdik and her team made the decision to amputate the left leg to give her the best quality of life.
    — Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
  • Adams had parts of his leg amputated and died on June 14, five days after the crash.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • At one point, he was told doctors might have to amputate his leg.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The freight car rolled over Ivy, crushing part of his left arm and both his legs, which had to be amputated.
    — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The new surgery came about a week after Corero's right leg was amputated.
    — Leigh Scheps, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The hardest one was the decision to amputate his right leg.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Three people had to have at least one leg amputated, and 11 died.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Once at the hospital, she was then told both of her legs would have to be amputated below the knee.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
  • Surgeons at the hospital had to amputate the lower part of his left leg last fall.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2022
  • He’s been in a wheelchair for 6 years with both legs amputated.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 18 July 2023
  • The bombardier applied a tourniquet and shot him with morphine but the leg could not be saved; it was amputated the next day.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The bombardier applied a tourniquet and shot him with morphine, but the leg could not be saved; it was amputated the next day.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Doctors already had cut out both sides of his left calf and amputated two of his toes in 2021.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • In another, doctors prepared to amputate the leg of a child injured in the blast.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Doctors there had closed off his right leg above the knee and amputated his left leg below it.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Still, Brown allegedly forged ahead with her plans to amputate the foot using gauze scissors, per the Post.
    — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Due to the severity of the infections, doctors had to amputate both legs below the knees on Oct. 21.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The first field surgeon who saw McBride wanted to amputate his feet, Dawson says.
    — oregonlive, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Due to the damage, doctors at a nearby clinic had to amputate the leg above the knee, without anesthetic to numb the pain.
    — David Mateo Ricci, STAT, 31 Dec. 2019
  • His victims choke on food, crash their cars, amputate their fingers in prams.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2022
  • In 2016, a worker at Hostetler Farms in Salem had to have his thumb amputated after it was crushed by a machine.
    — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023

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