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How to use gauze in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun, verb

Gauze means a thin fabric with a loose, open weave. Example: “He stopped the wound with gauze.”

Examples of gauze by meaning

nounA similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.

  • There’s some gauze in the bathroom, go get it and do it yourself.”1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

verbTo apply a dressing of gauze; to cover with gauze.

  • I gauzed the deep cuts and gashes.2007, Brandon Pena, Twilight’s Angel, page 161

verbTo mist; to make or become gauze-like.

  • The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia...
  • It had come to be six o’clock; midges gauzed the air.1955, Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love, page 40
  • Then a film of chemical vapour seems to drift around the city, fudging every edge, gauzing every vista.1985, Jan Morris, From the Four Corners, published 1995

More sentences with gauze

  • He stopped the wound with gauze.From the entry stop
  • Puss leaked out from beneath white gauze on his back and trickled down his spine.2016 When Crickets Cry page 267. From the entry puss
  • "Lad," he said quietly, "I didn't try to wrap you in gauze, you know that.2012, David Drake, The Road of Danger. From the entry cloudscraper
  • A gauze pad taped to the upper lip facilitates management of small amounts of mucosanguineous rhinorrhea.2008, Eugene N. Myers, Operative Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, second edition, volume I. From the entry mucosanguineous
  • And then the plastic strips, the pads of gauze, the hooked-over waterdrain thing.2008, Roscoe, Janet, Never look back, Linford, page 3. From the entry waterdrain
  • I cleaned it with saline, packed the cavities with gauze soaked in flavine, and rebandaged.2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 205. From the entry flavine
  • Gauze diapers come in one size, 20 or 21 inches to 40 inches.1969, Good Housekeeping, volume 168, International Magazine Company, page 128. From the entry overnight diaper
  • These diapers are woven with three layers of highly absorbent gauze.1953 May 14, “Nighttime Diapers”, in Abilene Reporter-News, page 6-A. From the entry night diaper
  • Your impudence protects you sairly, I canna say but ye strunt rarely Owre gauze and lace.1900, Robert Burns, “To A Louse, On Seeing One On a Lady's Bonnet At Church”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns, page 52. From the entry strunt
  • Large areas of the velvet pile have been removed using devoré, leaving most of the fabric as a transparent gauze.2020, Sue Westergaard, Screenprinting on Textiles: The Complete Guide, Ramsbury, Wiltshire: The Crowood Press Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry devoré
  • The egg gauze was carefully collected from the field after 48 h of exposure and maintained within 10 ml glass dactylethrae.2016 February 17, “Influence of Landscape Diversity and Composition on the Parasitism of Cotton Bollworm Eggs in Maize”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry dactylethra
  • Unless that gauze can fix a beheading.2010, Kresley Cole, Demon from the Dark, page 81. From the entry tacticool
  • One nurse aggressively stanched the arterial pseudoaneurysm with a copious number of four-inch gauze pads, but Williams’s ordeal is hardly over.2008 May 12, George Vecsey, “Accepting the Costs of a Life in Football”, in New York Times. From the entry pseudoaneurysm
  • I had my toe redressed wiv bandage, gauze and plasters.2004, Andrew Collins, “Diary, 1979”, in Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry ooch
  • I could tell you how Dr (Simon) Costain plucked the bits of old gauze out of my toe wiv tweezers.2004, Andrew Collins, “Diary, 1979”, in Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry ooch
  • Hold a length of drainpipe vertically and stuff a loose wad of metal gauze up into the lower end.1979, R. E. D. Bishop, Vibration, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry drainpipe
  • Equally favored by modern mothers is the rectangular flat diaper made of two-layer cotton gauze and foldable into four-cornered pants.1965 August, “Diapers”, in Consumer Reports, volume 30, number 8, Consumers Union, page 402. From the entry flat diaper
  • The newer gauze variety is very satisfactory.1948 January, Elizabeth Chant Robertson, “Your Questions: Our Answers”, in Byrne Hope Sanders, editor, Chatelaine, volume 21, number 1…. From the entry diaper
  • It is a double gauze, bonneted lamp and is of very substantial construction and well suited for a working lamp.1914, R[obert] Y[oung] Williams, H[arvey] E[dson] Smith, Mine Gases and Safety Lamps, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois, pages 42 and 44. From the entry bonneted
  • She came to the upper-lip portion of the surgery and was very pleased with her work and almost smiled, then finished removing the remaining gauze.2014, Lynne Marshall, chapter 2, in 200 Harley Street: American Surgeon in London, Mills & Boon, page 77. From the entry lip job
  • After shoogling the frame, he let it drip for a few seconds, then, as if opening the window, he raised the deckle and lifted out the gauze.2008, Mandy Haggith, Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash - The True Cost of Paper, page 25. From the entry shoogle
  • They put on her a purple vest, thickly embroidered with gold and pearls, underdrawers of scarlet silk, and gauze trousers (such as Eastern women wear) of many folds.1901, Maurice Hewlett, The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay. From the entry underdrawers

Meaning of gauze

  1. noun A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
  2. noun A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
  3. noun A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.

Full definition of gauze

Questions about gauze in a sentence

How do you use gauze in a sentence?
Gauze is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He stopped the wound with gauze.”
What is a short sentence with gauze?
“He stopped the wound with gauze.”
What does gauze mean?
Gauze means a thin fabric with a loose, open weave.

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