Example sentences for: lister

How can you use “lister” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Joseph Lister pioneered the use of carbolic acid to keep wounds clean, and James Young Simpson experimented with chloroform as an anesthetic.

  • William Ernest Henley had tuberculosis of the bone, was hospitalized for years and treated by Lord Lister himself with, I believe, scraping of the bone, and whatever primitive antisepsis was used in those days, probably carbolic acid.

  • Critics delight in "one of the great literary hoaxes of the century" (David Lister, the Independent ), in which a best-selling British novelist tries to pass off his "biography" of a nonexistent painter as authentic.


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