scalpel

Example Sentences

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Akutagawa, recalled Kurosawa in his memoir, “goes into the depths of the human heart as if with a surgeon’s scalpel, laying bare its dark complexities and bizarre twists.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

But few legislators could handle a lawmaking scalpel like Burton.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025

The work in making government more efficient needs to be done with a scalpel, not a chainsaw.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024

Internal documents show the surgeon’s colleagues felt his behaviour was “questionable” and were “very surprised” he was unable to find a scalpel.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2024

It was like delicately searching out the gap between one stitch and the next with the point of a scalpel.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman