How to Use dissection in a Sentence

dissection

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  • What dissection gives them is an idea of how deep things are.
    — National Geographic, 29 July 2016
  • His body, after his death, was given over to the surgeons for dissection.
    — Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2015
  • More than 830 of those were selected for dissection and study.
    — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Among these, more than 830 bodies were selected by the center for dissection and study.
    — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
  • At his schools, students learn anatomy by looking at prosections, dissections done by skilled anatomists.
    — National Geographic, 29 July 2016
  • A vivid dissection of the teeming city of Bombay, from bar dancers to Muslim gangs to Bollywood.
    — Esquire, 31 Jan. 2006
  • Aneurysms, or blockages; and dissections, tears in the aortic wall, were almost universally fatal in 1950.
    — Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle, 14 July 2008
  • The aquarium added that one lucky school group will get the chance to be part of the dissection.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 19 July 2021
  • For the full lineup, check out the event page and a dissection of the events in this article.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • On some occasions, the king even took part in the dissections.
    — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018
  • The scientists caught some of the insects and brought them back to their lab for dissection.
    — Richard Pallardy, Science | AAAS, 12 May 2021
  • Here are some clips from that recording, and Huke’s own dissection of each play.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2021
  • McCrane had to stick his head through a hole in the set's dissection table for the entire scene.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Larson was 35, and the cause of death was an aortic dissection.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 May 2017
  • The first sight of the 2021 A&M offense deserves dissection.
    — Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • There was more dissection of the idea of chaos magic [the source of Wanda’s powers] in the [writers] room, too.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2021
  • The CT scans and dissections revealed that the sand was not equally distributed in the goat guts.
    — Lakshmi Supriya, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2019
  • The most common cause of stroke in the young is an injury to the artery in the neck called an arterial dissection.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2018
  • For an in-depth dissection of the show, check out our review by The Times art critic Christopher Knight.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The cause was an aortic dissection, a tear in the blood vessel leading from the heart, his son Henry said.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The cause was an aortic dissection, said a daughter, Lani Phillips.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The game is, like The Stanley Parable, a kind of formal dissection of its own medium.
    — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The songs on the EP seem to be a mix of self-analysis and dissections of relationships.
    — Katrina Nattress, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Carey moved down a few centimeters along the tree trunk and started a new dissection.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The team found 1,457 flowers, in both male and female phases, and cut many open with a dissection needle right on the spot.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 3 June 2021
  • Trust that this gets sweet soon, shortly after the worm-dissection talk.
    — Vulture, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The give-and-go with Weigel was a thing of beauty, a textbook dissection of the defense by longtime teammates.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • His dissection of the claim begins with a story The Courant published on Christmas Day 1955.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • But the reading is a dissection: of our fondest aims and beliefs, of all our watchwords.
    — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
  • While fish require hours of careful dissection, tiny snails are easy to squish.
    — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021

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