x-ray

[ˈeks reɪ]

Definition:
1. Examine by taking x-rays.
2. Take an x-ray of something or somebody.

Use 'x-ray' in a sentence:

1. The increase in brightness of the x-ray sources over the same period has occurred far faster.
2. You should have an X-ray.
3. We'll take an X-ray of your arm.
4. The stethoscope is older than the x-ray, the ballpoint pen, Popular Science and pretty much everything else in your doctor's office.
5. We need to give you an X-ray.
6. When World War I began, she left Sevigne University to help her mother, who was using X-ray facilities to help save the lives of wounded soldiers.
7. You need an X-ray, Andy.
8. I need to get an X-ray.
9. X-ray examination of thin slabs of rock sometimes reveals the ghostly outlines of tentacles, digestive tracts, and visual organs of a variety of marine creatures.
10. How do I get to the X-ray room?
11. Do I need an X-ray, doctor?
12. Irene continued this work by developing X-ray facilities for military hospitals in France and Belgium.
13. The benefit of an x-ray far outweighs the minutely increased risk of cancer.
14. It will only register on sophisticated X-ray equipment.
15. Passengers must pass through metal detectors, and their carry-on bags are put through X-ray machines.
16. They can't tell till they X-ray.
17. Let's take an X-ray.
18. The airline had not been searching unaccompanied baggage by hand, but only screening it on X-ray machines.
19. I had to go for an X-ray.
20. The hospital staff held off taking Rosenbaum in for an X-ray.
21. We put our bags into the X-ray machine for examination.
22. The X-ray showed there was no break in his leg.
23. She was advised to have an abdominal X-ray.
24. I suggested that he rest, and sent him for an X-ray.
25. He climbed two floors to the X-ray room.
26. He had two X-ray burns on the back.
27. The element was found using X-ray spectroscopy.
28. A clerk had slipped the wrong tab on Tony's X-ray.
29. The x-ray detectors feed the input into computer programs.
30. You might still want to go for an X-ray, however, just to be on the safe side.