How to Use the doctor in a Sentence

the doctor

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  • In this one, this guy played the doctor, and that one, this guy played the priest.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2023
  • This was on a Thursday, and the doctor was out for the weekend.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • And maybe this would end her pain, and the doctor visits.
    — Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The nurse may announce the result, remove the cuff and record it for the doctor.
    — Fortune Well, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The patient, in a spicy turn, is crushing on the doctor.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Signing in at the doctor’s office with a scan of your face.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Some ancient Stoics likened their school of thought to a painful trip to see the doctor.
    — Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • Failure would mean a repeat of the tragedy that caused the doctor to turn to religion in the first place.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Jan. 2024
  • On the fourth day, my wife said the doctor came into the waiting room and told her the bleeding had stopped and gave her the thumbs up.
    — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The goal is to bridge the gap between your everyday life and the doctor’s office.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Standing next to me is the doctor overseeing the Covid wing.
    — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Then the doctor returned to the locked room with more staff — Mr. Tuleja counted nine.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • McLin recalled the doctor’s promise that they would not be billed.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The pharmacist told the patient to take half a tablet twice a day rather than twice a week as the doctor had prescribed.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • When the moment comes for Joel to bust through the operating room door, the game doesn't give you the option to let the doctor live.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The second-chorus scene in the hospital nursery, the singer dressed in scrubs and talking with the doctor, provoked some of the tears in the room.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Once there, the doctor gave her an envelope with cash and told her to walk to a nearby building.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • And the doctor here said there was no evidence of Parkinson's disease or a stroke or - or a seizure.
    — CBS News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The film then cuts to the pair going to the doctor’s office, where Gomez can be seen getting an ultrasound.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2023
  • His death certificate listed the cause as a heart attack, but the doctor who signed it was the husband of one of his cousins.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2024
  • And the doctor even was trying to persuade me to supplement.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 3 July 2024
  • They were all killed in the earthquake that hit the region on February 6, the doctor’s nephew Shareef Dwedari said, and they were buried the same day, in the same grave.
    — Will Wintercross, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Sitting back, the doctor looked hard at Griner and lobbed a test question: At what age would Griner do bone grafts on patients?
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Oliva would return 10 times to the doctor over the month of August, according to the lawsuit.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In a world coming to pieces, Lamu was exactly what the doctor ordered.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2023
  • First Chu would ask her to raise her arms straight out from her shoulders, like an airplane, and then keep them up as the doctor — or one of the trainees — would push down.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • The police, fire brigade, coast guard and volunteers have spent days searching land and sea for the doctor, who did not take his phone with him.
    — Chris Liakos, CNN, 9 June 2024
  • Learn from the doctor what her needs are today and what is anticipated over the next year as well as the next few years.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
  • The drama is exactly what the doctor ordered for Nascar, as the championship battle heats up.
    — Joseph Wolkin, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • In therapy, the doctor says Grotesquerie is an amalgamation of all of the evils that have happened in the world in [her] mind, but then these crimes start to happen literally.
    — Andy Swift, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024

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