Sentence examples for sawbones from inspiring English sources

He did not criticise his sawbones colleagues, but he thought his own countenance showed that the needle worked better than the knife.

The emperor's daughter has been born with a terrible affliction, to which palace sawbones have appended the acronym SARS—or, to give it its full name, Severe Atypical Reeking Syndrome.

Sawbones they were, and sawbones they will become once again.

"Put the sawbones like me out of business".

On this third hand that a clearly under-qualified sawbones has accidentally stitched to my elbow, what we're looking at here is a new outlet for the thing we do best: leaving playful and/or wilfully silly reviews for things.

When film directors are lured to TV, they tend to seek out cable or the streaming equivalent: think David Fincher stacking the House of Cards deck for Netflix, or Steven Soderbergh's spurting sawbones drama The Knick for Cinemax.

Until the 19th century, no sawbones worth his salt would be without one or two trephines - small circular saws used to make a hole in the skull - in his black bag.

I loved Catherine Johnson's Sawbones, so now I'm really looking forward to her latest – The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo.

(Now that they have retired, there are no more senatorial Ph.D.s, just the three sawbones).

He makes his way to a town where he finds a preacher, Meacham (Clancy Brown), who sews up a weird wound for him, and takes on a drunk, Percy (Paul Dano), who makes the saloonkeeper-sawbones, Doc Sam Rockwelll), dance by gunfire.

In fiction, the practice of giving to a character a proper name that defines or suggests a leading quality of that character (such as Squire Allworthy, Doctor Sawbones) is also called antonomasia.