How to Use bandage in a Sentence

bandage

1 of 2 noun
Definition of bandagenext
Synonyms for bandagenext
  • She put a bandage on the cut.
  • He wrapped a bandage around his knee.
  • Peter spends much of the play upside down or in bandages.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The convoy’s medic removed the one man’s helmet to show a heavy bandage.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
  • Wash the punctures, cover with a clean bandage, then keep an eye on them.
    — Aliese Willard Muhonen, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • Twitter @mymixtapez has video of the incident that left Durk with a bandage over one of his eyes.
    — Vulture, 31 July 2022
  • The nurses, for example, stripped his bandages all at once, as per the cliché.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • His left foot was encased in a black walking boot with his toe wrapped up in a white bandage.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The bandage-style cutouts offer a peek of skin while still giving you that high-waisted fit.
    — Hannah Oh and Ann Wang, Seventeen, 5 July 2022
  • Unpick the bandage To look, though water does boil watched.
    — Caleb Crain, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
  • In one pic, the singer's index finger can be seen wrapped up in either a cast or a thick bandage.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Nearby, a 25-year-old with his head wrapped in a bandage puffed on a cigarette.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2022
  • Up ahead, a woman tended to a teen-age boy, his head wrapped in a bloodied bandage.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • The bandage idea was inspired by hospital gowns and wound care.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 11 May 2022
  • White bandages could be seen underneath the top of her sweatshirt.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Davidson was spotted on the set of Bupkis in New York with a bandage underneath the top of his shirt.
    — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
  • She's also seen at the end of the trailer, being pushed in a wheelchair, a bandage over her right ankle.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Leonard’s heroics were a bandage that covered up the Clippers’ wounds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Stephen removes one of his socks and turns it into a soft little cocoon bandage for the bird.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Hailey Bieber is giving the bandage dress a very 2023 update.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Stevens sported a bandage on his chin after the game, suffered from a cut on one of his scrambles.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Dispose of used bandages, and wash any fabrics that touch your skin sores in hot water.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 8 July 2023
  • The bandages are edited to be the only part of the photo that’s in-color, a lilac purple shade that matches the cover of Sour.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 13 June 2023
  • Compression means wrapping the area with an elastic bandage to keep the swelling down.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • In video footage of the event, Bruno can be seen being fixed with a harness, his paws protected by bandages.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
  • Khan was seen with a bandage on his right leg, just above the foot, according to reports and a blurry image from the protest.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The Hervé Léger bandage dress was a genius way of accomplishing the swimsuit look.
    — Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Spring Weather Jokes What falls, but never needs a bandage?
    — Country Living, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Davidson was spotted on the set of his current project Bupkis in New York this week with a bandage peeking out of the top of his shirt.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
  • One young man, with a blue rubber glove on his hand and fresh white bandages on his leg, crossed the police tape and walked toward the wreckage.
    — Dzvinka Pinchuk Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 28 June 2023
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bandage

2 of 2 verb
  • He arrived with a bandaged ankle.
  • His right arm was bandaged, his left hand smeared with blood.
    — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The other hand, which was bandaged, hung limply at his side.
    — Alice Driver, Longreads, 30 June 2017
  • Doctors bandaged her up and told her to return the next day.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 28 June 2017
  • If bitten by a wolf spider, the wound should not be bandaged.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
  • The doctors drained the blisters and bandaged up Nisbet's legs once more.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 29 June 2017
  • Shaw's right hand was bandaged at the news conference from the struggle.
    — Sheila Burke, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2018
  • After bandaging her up, the shelter's vet took her home for the night to keep an eye on her.
    — Marci Robin, Good Housekeeping, 24 Jan. 2018
  • On Saturday, Parra bandaged his hands and brought gloves with him to the race.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • The couple also posed with the tattooist with their arms bandaged from their new ink.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
  • Giroud had treatment for a few minutes and his head was bandaged.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
  • In the photos, Zuckerberg was lying down with his left leg bandaged and in a cast.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
  • After just a day in the hospital, Sam came home, all bandaged up.
    — Michelle Boudin, PEOPLE.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Wynkoop saw Gabriel’s side was bandaged under his T-shirt.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Nova's finger was bandaged after the game; X-rays did not show a break.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The bright red heart above her wrist, freshly bandaged in plastic wrap, is oozing streaks of blood.
    — Michelle Lhooq, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Kicking managers to the curb, along with a hitting coach here and a pitching coach there, can bandage the short term.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Altuve, 32, walked out of Venezuela’s clubhouse with his right thumb bandaged.
    — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Go back to our cave, bandage up, hopefully get healthy.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The medical team cleaned up the wound and bandaged it, and then turned the focus to his hands, arms and neck, trying to restore function.
    — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • Some breastfed babies, some slept, some had limbs or jaws bandaged up.
    — Lynn Freed, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Sauerbrunn returned in the 57th minute after being checked out and bandaged up.
    — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 7 July 2019
  • Lakers coach Frank Vogel called four timeouts in the first half, hoping to bandage wounds.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2021
  • Photos from the scene posted by the Sun-Sentinel showed paramedics bandaging the man's legs as blood dripped down his ankles.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 10 July 2017
  • However, less than ten minutes later, Rooney was on the side of the pitch being bandaged up by the club doctor.
    — SI.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • What with all the peeling, the grating, bandaging the cuts and cursing the darkness, there’s a job for everyone.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 7 May 2020
  • Neighbors tore up some women’s clothes to bandage his wound and, lacking medicine, smeared honey on it.
    — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • A few yards away, a man sat on the curb with his leg bandaged before he was loaded into an ambulance.
    — Madeline Buckley, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2018
  • Doctors in the hospital cleaned and bandaged Peggy’s wounds.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Although he was injured, Dawson bandaged his arm and returned to his troops.
    — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2018

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