SCALPEL in a Sentence

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For SCALPEL, below is one of 2 sentences:
He handed me the scalpel and stepped aside from the patient, offering me the prestigious first cut on the patient.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCALPEL
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scalpel
 n.  a small knife with a thin, keen blade, used by surgeons, and in dissecting
Classic Sentence:
1  Carol tried to look at him, yet not look at the seeping blood, the crimson slash, the vicious scalpel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  He handed me the scalpel and stepped aside from the patient, offering me the prestigious first cut on the patient.