How to Use examination in a Sentence

examination

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  • The victim's clothes were sent to the lab for examination.
  • The police made a rigorous examination of the evidence at the crime scene.
  • I have to study for the history examination.
  • On closer examination, the painting appears to be a fake.
  • The court ordered that the defendant undergo a psychiatric examination.
  • Read excerpts here, and find The Post’s months-long examination of the road to the war in Ukraine here.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • There is also an examination of the role of a father in the film.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Yet they were poised to crush him, in the final examinations and then in real life.
    — Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The bomb squad took the device to Rodman’s Neck in the Bronx for further examination.
    — Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
  • All window glass was observed to be broken at the time of the scene examination.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2024
  • Much will depend on how the economy evolves over the next few months — and whether any new shocks thwart the Fed’s careful examination of the post-covid world.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The follow-up examinations of NGC 5084 helped the team see this galaxy and its sideways black hole across a wide range of light wavelengths.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In practice, that means that accounts of wards can — and do — go years without any kind of examination.
    — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In a lab examination last week, the NTSB determined the part had come apart prior to impact.
    — Dominic Gates and Sarah Grace Taylor, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • An all-too-rare examination of Whiteness, in the hands of a warm and humane storyteller.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The examination of the human cost of conflict, and of love and hope trying to thrive within it, resonates more than ever.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
  • After a brief sideline examination, the Lions called for a cart to take Walker to the locker room.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2022
  • There has to be a full, forensic examination of what just happened.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
  • An examination revealed that the sea lion had a fresh gunshot wound in its back.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Perhaps the best sign for Worthy comes from a closer examination of Reid’s words.
    — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2024
  • During an examination by a doctor, the teen showed no remorse for the attack and laughed when he was told about her injuries, Scott said.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 21 June 2024
  • The show is a cheery examination of looming early death.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The substance was sent to a city lab for further examination, police said.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The new building will triple the size of the previous clinic’s footprint with 11 examination rooms and space for telehealth.
    — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Police said there were no obvious signs of foul play at or near the scene and are awaiting the results of a medical examination to learn the causes of death for the men.
    — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The case was the high court’s first examination of restrictions on transgender athletes, but was not a decision on the merits of the case.
    — Laura Meckler, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The contraption is equipped with two robot arms on each side of the table and will sit right at home in any sci-fi flick's medical examination room.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
  • This scenario might seem mundane to you, but fans of ASMR can spend hours lost in a state of bliss watching these examinations being performed.
    — Jack Hillcox, CNN, 24 June 2023
  • But to bring it about, today’s liberal internationalists will need to conduct a full and honest examination of the path that has brought them to their present miserable state.
    — Anatol Lieven, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • And then more excitement as the disk is taken for forensic examination, with a tense wait while top data recovery experts are flown in from across the globe until finally the data is recovered to the sound of popping champagne corks.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025

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