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How to use the word scalpel in a Sentence?

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Yanking down on aggregate demand level by raising rates would be a machine gun approach to something that needs a scalpel.

Josh Bivens

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.

Lenny Bruce

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

In the aftermath of these hearings, I believe that Christines testimony brought about more good than the harm misogynist Republicans caused by allowing Kavanaugh on Supreme Court, he will always have an asterisk next to his name. When he takes a scalpel to Roe v. Wade, we will know who he is, we know his character, and we know what motivates him, and that is important.

Debra Katz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Mahathir probably wishes that he could run a scalpel through those incredibly costly projects that involve Chinese companies.

Shahriman Lockman

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This was done (to me) in white America by a fundamentalist Christian doctor who practiced his religion with a scalpel, i am disturbed by the anti-Muslim sentiment throughout the United States. I didn't want this to be another form of discrimination against Muslims.

Renee Bergstrom

Found on CNN
6 years ago

If you leave (education) to the federal government, they swing a meat ax instead of a scalpel on these issues.

Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For me the major application, the best application, would be going smaller and levitating things inside your body and this could be drug capsules, this could be kidney stones, this could be clots or micro surgical instruments, a tiny scalpel, tiny scissors that you could control from the outside without any incision.

Asier Marzo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I felt nothing—just some mild itching, i much prefer radiation to having something dug out of my nose with a scalpel.

Toni Weiser

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The feel is very different because obsidian has no 'bite,' if you look under the microscope at a steel scalpel edge it looks almost like a saw, it has teeth, whereas obsidian is smooth even microscopically.

Lee Green

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There is no eraser on the end of a scalpel.

Douglas Leonard Martin, Douglas Leonard Martin in a letter to FDA in 1975.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Nicholas Chamfort

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Edward Irving Koch

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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