remove a bullet
Frequency: 7.310.9 per million words
to take a bullet out of something it is lodged in, usually a body
Categories:
Examples (10)
- The surgeons are preparing to remove the bullet lodged near his spine.
- It took the doctor over three hours to successfully remove the bullet from her shoulder.
- The field medic had to remove the bullet right there on the battlefield.
- They decided it was safer to leave the shrapnel in than to try and remove the bullet.
- Once the patient is stable, we will remove the bullet in the morning.
- The forensic team carefully removed the bullet from the doorframe to identify the weapon.
- A veterinarian was called in to remove a bullet from the wounded deer.
- The bullet was removed during a complex emergency surgery.
- In the 19th century, removing a bullet was a highly dangerous procedure without modern anesthesia.
- He feels much better now that the doctors have removed the bullet.