Definition: 1. Bind (a wound or a part of the body) with a protective strip of material. 2. A piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body. 3. Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose. 4. Dress by covering or binding.
Use 'bandage' in a sentence:
1. In the infirmary, Sara cleans the bandage on Michael's left foot.
2. Why is your thumb in bandage?
3. Disinfect the wound before you bandage it up.
4. Remove the bandage after 24 hours.
5. To make a honey or sugar compress, sprinkle it on to the wound, cover with a bandage and change daily.
6. Do you have a bandage?
7. You gotta let me change that bandage when we get to the top.
8. The nurse washed the wound and wrapped it with a bandage.
9. Never make the bandage too tight as this can cause breathing problems.
10. The doctor lapped a bandage around the wounded soldier's wrist.
11. His head has been hung over with thick bandage except two eyes.
12. She trussed him quickly with stolen bandage, and gagged his mouth.
13. Don't tie the bandage too tight.
14. The bandage must be put on when the blister breaks.
15. Holding the cloth in his teeth, he managed to cut jagged strips off for bandages.
16. Her small body was bandaged and a tube inserted in her side drained her liver.
17. He dealt with that first, smearing salve over the bandage with which he bound the wound, and then attended to the many bruises.
18. Pei said that qualified doctors would have protected the wound with a bandage rather than cotton material.
19. His chest was swathed in bandages.
20. We put some ointment and a bandage on his knee.
