How to Use suture in a Sentence

suture

1 of 2 noun
Definition of suturenext
Synonyms for suturenext
  • His garage band, Dr. Mark and the Sutures, has been together for the past 30 years.
    — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • Next, Taylor had to find a suture thread that would hold onto the dye.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The sutures and location shown in the photo does appear to be a knife cut to the layman.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Still, the current rift has crossed suture zones before.
    — Chris Mooney, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Jedi suffered wounds to his head and around one of his eyes, which were treated with sutures.
    — Anna Buchmann, sacbee, 21 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • One suture on the bowl’s lip was the result of its being dropped last year by a Tampa grinder named Pat Maroon.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • The trio played together throughout high school, changing its name to The Sutures, then took a break to go to college.
    — Andrew Gospe, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
  • 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
  • My sister had a deep cut in her forehead that would require sutures.
    — Robert Radin, Marie Claire, 18 May 2015
  • The sutures, which eventually dissolve, act like strings, pulling up the skin.
    — Emily Dudding, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Mar. 2016
  • Patty’s incision was closed with the same kind of tiny sutures used on human eyes.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • With three tiny sutures, Deschamps-Braly reattached the scalp, moved slightly forward, to her skull.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Doctors glued her neck and one finger shut and sewed layers of sutures into her face, which had been slashed to the bone by Jordan’s blade.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Yes, those suture staples that the title character in The Rider is pulling out of his head are real.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The singer takes in the too-realistic-looking fake brown flesh, marred by surgical sutures and grotesque scars, and shakes his head again.
    — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 10 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • The key question is whether the surgery was more of a debridement (clean up) like Cam Newton or a true repair (with sutures) like Andrew Luck.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • My eyes were practically swollen shut and my face was covered in bruises and sutures.
    — Serena Daniari, Allure, 23 Mar. 2019
  • To the surprise of seismologists who blinked at their phones and saw the number 8 (soon after adjusted to 7.9), you were not centered on the great suture at the bottom of the sea.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Arthrex has recalled a knee replacement device and a type of suture anchors in recent years.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 May 2021
  • From above, which is the only way to view the complex’s exterior, the ramps look like sutures that can’t quite heal an industrial scar.
    — Justin Davidson, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
  • Sadly, Walter can't come because his sutures won't hold if he's carried out.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 15 July 2023
  • The sutures were made by Ethicon, a J&J subsidiary, according to a medical document reviewed by the Tribune.
    — Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
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suture

2 of 2 verb
  • Torres then ties the artery off, and sutures the incision closed.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
  • And a bulbous sagging gash sutured over and over where . .
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • The bird’s wound was sutured and it was treated with antibiotics, Sharp said.
    — Taylor Hartz, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Last month, a prison dentist removed her wisdom teeth but did not suture the wounds.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
  • There was this 11-year-old boy learning how to suture trauma wounds with one of the military medics.
    — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • First, the brain is mostly freed from the skull; all the dangling arteries, save the carotids, are cauterized or sutured.
    — Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • The procedure requires a few very small incisions that sutured closed at the end.
    — Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2019
  • But behind the scenes, the team’s medical staff came up with a radical idea to suture the loose ankle tendon back into the skin.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Once that second project is completed, Hansen would remove the devices, suture the small wounds and send the horses off to a rescue shelter.
    — Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2014
  • In a young patient, when possible, the preferred treatment is surgery to unlock the knee and repair the meniscus by suturing it back in its place.
    — Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 18 May 2018
  • From the first scene to the last, Avengers: Infinity War felt like 2 hours and 40 minutes of climactic scenes, sutured together.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 1 May 2018
  • Right there, in the woman’s hands, clasped tenderly around her neighbor’s ribcage as if to suture a gashing sob, those downcast eyes that wouldn’t reach yours, those faces only known from the side.
    — Emmanuel Iduma, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2019
  • Then, surgeons sutured layers of tissue and repaired the defect.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 June 2019
  • During the repair, the doctor places the bandage between the two sides of the meniscus and then sutures the meniscal-collagen sandwich together.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2017
  • During the repair, the doctor places the bandage between the two sides of the meniscus and then sutures the meniscal-collagen sandwich together.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Your periodontist will harvest the graft tissue and move it over to the recipient site, suturing it in place.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 11 Mar. 2019
  • There will be dozens of kinds of surgical robots, and many will tackle specific jobs, from suturing in the abdomen to setting a broken leg.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The backstory of the piece is a Chinese fable in which the heavens are ripped asunder, unleashing calamity, until the goddess Nüwa rises to suture the tear and save humankind.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The surgeon would insert the device toward the end of an operation—when a patient is already cut open—and suture the surgical site, leaving the tube coming up through the skin to attach to the pump.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2022
  • Inspired by a Brazilian practice, the team decided to use sterilized tilapia skin sutured over the wounds as a temporary second-skin.
    — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2018
  • While there is much to do to suture our economy, our foremost priority has been preserving life.
    — Jerry Levin, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
  • Peyton procured the skin from a local fish market, sterilized it and then sutured it onto the sedated animals' paws.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • So much time accumulates on her small figure, the girl might well be centuries old, bearing the weight of slavery and empire, embodying the transit of the commodity, suturing the identity of the slave and the prostitute.
    — Longreads, 20 July 2019
  • A police affidavit says James Lowell Pennington, 57, removed the testicles and sutured the opening while the woman’s wife witnessed the 90-minute procedure.
    — Washington Post, 20 May 2017
  • In the first case, the scientists suture small pieces of ovarian tissue into a live monkey in places where there is ample blood flow — such as under the skin near the abdomen or arms — which promotes healthy follicle development.
    — Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2016
  • But the biggest challenge was inherent to the design: a 360-degree wraparound ribbon of four-foot-tall windows that horizontally bisect the entire studio, as if its peaked roof had been sliced clean and then sutured back on with glass.
    — Kurt Soller Angela Hau, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • The different areas of the scar are elevated and using a plastic surgery closure, the different layers are sutured together.
    — Carlos Wolf, miamiherald, 9 Apr. 2018
  • An irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts, such as scabs, fingernails or pimples Best medicine A man lost his ear, but surgeons were able to take a pig’s ear, shape it accordingly, and suture it into place.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023
  • That same year, a surgeon at Provident Hospital performed a medical marvel, becoming the first to successfully suture the wall surrounding the human heart.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2022
  • After suturing his wound and administering painkillers and antibiotics, nurses left him for 30 minutes of observation.
    — Leigh Kamping-Carder, WSJ, 5 July 2018

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