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    Use "splint" in a sentence

    splint example sentences

    splint


    splinted


    splinting


    splints


    1. He placed the branch of wood as a backplate, a support to keep his torso, chest and ribs stiff and unbent to prevent further aggravating his wounds inside, as well as keeping the bones in place if they were to build a proper splint once they went back and found a doctor


    2. Parnieskaya helped Colling apply a splint to the injured sergeant’s lower arm, and Colling told him to have a seat and wait while Colling took care of the second man


    3. A dental splint, which is akin to a cast on a broken or sprained arm or leg, may also be helpful in protecting the tissues while they recover


    4. Then, instead of replacing the cast, she simply tied my arm onto a piece of kindling wood as a splint


    5. leg splint with the Velcro


    6. But the long leg splint was just her size


    7. the splint, but her toes did not extend into the foot portion of the wrapping


    8. The man continued to inspect the splint I put on the boy’s arm


    9. “I asked you, did you splint this arm?”


    10. Fergus spotted me in the armchair and crossed the room to where I sat, taking in the hole in my jeans and the makeshift splint

    11. She rewrapped the leg in cotton and strapped the two shells together that were reinforced with steel like a finger splint only this one was designed for equine limbs


    12. Angela turned the corner with a bit of optimism as Samuel’s voice sounded somewhat normal but as she turned the corner of his parlor and his settee came into view, she saw the full effects of his injuries, and she gasped! There was not much of his body that was not covered either in a cast or splint


    13. He broke the legs off a wooden chair and set her arm as best he could; securing the splint with pieces of towel he’d ripped into strips


    14. � Sitting besides the wounded nurse, now lying on a stretcher and with Price applying a rudimentary splint on her broken leg, Nancy gently caressed the woman�s hair


    15. More accurately, she moved as fast as nature would allow her to with a boy slung over her shoulder, a broken wrist in a splint, and a bad ankle that was getting worse now that Kimi had to run for her life


    16. “Albert, could you swing the limo over a little closer to us? As soon as we’ve put a splint on her ankle, we’ll need to help her over to the car, and the less distance she has to traverse, the better


    17. Joel pondered these valid points for a moment, as he helped Falcon to steady Kathy’s leg, so they could strap the splint to her ankle with the ace bandage, and thought about some alternative solutions to this dilemma


    18. They all pondered this dilemma for several minutes, while Joel kept Kathy’s leg steady as Falcon strapped a splint to her injured ankle, with an ace bandage


    19. As he helped Falcon finish strapping her ankle to the splint with the ace bandage, he spoke up in a tone which brooked no argument


    20. In next to no time at all, Gerry and Cassie brought the van around, while Joel and Falcon finished securing Kathy’s ankle to the splint, with the ace bandage

    21. And while you’re up there, grab the first aid kit from the gym, for there is a good-sized splint in that kit, if I remember correctly, which I can use to rewrap Kathy’s ankle to


    22. I need to stabilize her ankle sufficiently until we can get it x-rayed at the clinic, and that splint is the only one which will do the trick


    23. While they waited a few minutes for the ice to reduce some of the swelling in Kathy’s ankle, Falcon’s brother took a large splint and another ace bandage from the first aid kit, and set them side by side on the table


    24. He picked up the splint and carefully positioned it underneath Kathy’s ankle and foot


    25. He then picked up the clean ace bandage, and deftly wrapped it securely around her ankle and the splint with enough tightness to keep her foot and ankle immobile, but loose enough so it didn’t feel like a tourniquet


    26. After her ankle was strapped to the splint to his satisfaction, Conrad tackled the next and trickier step in attending to his patient’s injuries, which was getting her to realize how important it was that she have her ankle x-rayed


    27. Apply a splint if necessary


    28. Apply and elbow splint to keep the elbow extended


    29. Apply an elbow splint to keep the elbow extended


    30. Apply an elbow splint

    31. Position their affected upper limb on the handle as required using a splint or bandage


    32. license plate I had my hand in a splint due to an earlier altercation


    33. I had my hand in a splint and I was hanging on the door, from the


    34. He was covered in scratches and had a splint on his ankle, but he had never looked better to Mac


    35. Holon was already strapping a splint to her leg aided by the other two women


    36. Even the girl with the broken leg and splint tried to kneel, but couldn’t when Holon pushed her back down


    37. Gaga was a duck who bobbed around in a fire trough, paddling with a broken leg that a captive had fitted with a little splint


    38. She should splint it


    39. I made a sort of long splint this morning and tied it all


    40. At the airport, the press noticed that Marilyn’s finger was bandaged and in a splint

    41. NOTE: Separate all hard splint material from the skin with padding—moss is useful for this—or pressure sores may develop


    42. Splint from shoulder to elbow on outside of arm


    43. He had his leg in a splint and, as was customary in these cases, there was an extension at the foot-piece with a heavy weight attached to prevent shortening of the leg


    1. “She splinted my leg, and carried me about two and a half miles, running most of the way


    2. When Seven awoke, Brent had set his fracture and splinted his leg


    3. Does anyone have a staff?” He took the proffered wood and broke it in two, wrapped my leg and splinted it


    4. The road splinted apart, one was to the south and the other to the west


    5. His ears (the dog’s) were bandaged and splinted into a pair of straight-up horns


    6. Kimi jumped to her feet, flinching as she landed on the bad ankle, hiding her splinted, broken wrist behind her, not wanting Achak to notice she was injured


    7. He splinted her ankle, bandaged her face and made sure she was not bothered until she could leave the wagon on her own


    8. Ravan gasped with pain and splinted his broken ribs, unable to breathe


    9. splinted with wooden slats in such a manner that they can't bend either elbow to bring the


    10. splinted with wooden slats, preventing them from bending their elbows

    11. He walked bare-chested in the late afternoon sunlight, wearing short breeches and with his leg bandaged and splinted, he kept hitting at fallen apples on the ground as he went


    12. A shovel splinted to his thigh


    13. She passes wheelchairs, splinted arms, clutched stomachs, a person leaning over to retch into a bush, another with what appears to be a club-wound to the head


    14. “This is folly, ser,” Septon Sefton complained, as Dunk limped heavily across the yard, swinging his splinted foot and leaning on a crutch


    15. The open collars of the men’s shirts showed dark red lines of sunburn on their throats, and one guest had gone to the trouble and expense of breaking his forefinger, which was splinted and covered with laced leather cut from a glove


    1. He made Colling first demonstrate the splinting of various fractures, being careful only to refer to the broken bones by their anatomical names


    2. Trid had done a fine job with Nefer’s arm, breaking the old fracture and splinting it


    3. He painted upon his own face a look of benign satisfaction and eased himself onto the edge of the bed, splinting his left side, determined not to let Pierre see his pain


    1. Family members treated wounds, made splints for broken limbs and mourned for the dead


    2. tape, splints and much more


    3. Arms form long splints so she won't be bent as she travels


    4. The new squad had arrived with a new set of various splints


    5. "You were found in the side yard in your current condition," said Detective Corley, motioning to the casts and splints


    6. He had been delirious for over a week, she said, perspiring, screaming and trying to rip off the bandages and splints


    7. From then on, paying no attention to his leg in splints, on week-ends he would pick up Amaranta Úrsula at the nun’s boardinghouse where she lived, where the rules were not as severe as Fernanda had wanted, and he would take her to his country club


    8. They then wrapped special air splints around his limbs


    9. hobble in on crutches with arms and collar bones in splints and plaster in a


    10. Trid re-bound my right leg, but the splints were shorter

    11. Use wraparound splints on the legs


    12. “See if there are any splints in there,” he said


    13. Arial had of course noticed my splintered fingers, and I woke to the feel of her taking off the broken splints and testing the movement of my hand


    14. Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints of mouldy bones, Once living men--once resolute courage, aspiration, strength,


    15. “Two arms with hands attached, though two fingers on your left hand are broken, hence the splints


    16. It was with a sense of luxury that he recognized his power of viewing life here from its inner side, in a way that had been quite foreign to him in his student-days; and, much as he loved his parents, he could not help being aware that to come here, as now, after an experience of home-life, affected him like throwing off splints and bandages; even the one customary curb on the humours of English rural societies being absent in this place, Talbothays having no resident landlord


    17. There was an old tin trunk in Joe's room which she had discovered the night before; it was half full of bandages and splints and various medicines


    18. "I brought up that trunk with your splints and things


    19. We were a helpless, sorry crowd, many of us with legs in splints, in the hold of a "hospital" ship crossing from Boulogne


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    Synonyms for "splint"

    splint rive splinter crush break cut

    "splint" definitions

    a thin sliver of wood


    an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg)


    support with a splint