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The family stays overnight, and by morning the child is in the operating room.—Rachel Pearson, New Yorker, 13 July 2025 One day an 8-year-old girl is rushed to your operating room suffering from a ruptured appendix.—Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025 The improvements to the 72-year-old hospital fulfill a need for more private rooms, a hybrid operating room for advanced imaging, and the modernized infrastructure needed to house robotic machinery used for surgeries.—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2025 They are hardened against the effects of a nuclear blast and include a range of security features, such as anti-missile countermeasures and an onboard operating room.—Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for operating room
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