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Example sentences for "sharp instrument"

  • An interesting case of the retention of a sharp instrument in the stomach is related by Mr. Kent of Bristol.

  • Excision should be followed by cauterization with the red-hot iron, by which a portion of the base of the tumour is destroyed, and which could not be reached by a sharp instrument.

  • The outer membrane is then scraped off with a sharp instrument, while the inner membrane remains in a state to be easily detached.

  • Some of the old inks, though retaining their black color have, from the presence of acid in the ink or paper, eaten through the paper as thoroughly as if the writing had been done with a sharp instrument.

  • To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

  • To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off.

  • Then examined and found a large lacerated wound on her right breast, made by a sharp instrument, which had passed through the third and fourth ribs to the cavity of the chest, from which a great effusion of blood had proceeded.

  • To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.

  • Hay knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    descended from; fertile valley; gained the; hath commanded; leaning over; neutral ship; paste made; proved reserves; provide against; quite otherwise; rare occurrence; shall explain; sharp action; sharp angle; sharp exclamation; sharp fight; sharp fire; sharp frost; sharp look; sharp lookout; sharp sword; sharp teeth; sharply pointed; this part; union among; verily think