auscultate
Example Sentences
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I wanted to auscultate, but that was not an option.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2020
It was therefore necessary to demolish, as we proceeded, a great part of the ship's inner skin and fittings, and to auscultate what remained, like a doctor sounding for a lung disease.
From The Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis
If a student can auscultate correctly, or make up a prescription, at an examination, he will in all probability be able to do so in other circumstances.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Quotlibet huc, ubicunque hominum, auscultate canenti, Si breve vos teneam;—non ego longus ero.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various
Nevertheless, they gave advice, got on the moral hobby again, and had the assurance to auscultate.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave
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