We don't have time to learn how to do surgical knots."

The surgical knots you cut were either "Too long!"

She spent the evening practicing tying surgical knots on table legs and lamps.

(Ship building has honed his skills in tying surgical knots.)

Van Fleet made a quick surgical knot, snipped off the thread, and tucked the end out of sight at the corner of the mouth.

With a neat surgical knot, he tied a piece of cotton string around a fresh bouquet garni and ladled stock over it in the saucepan.

The Greek physician Heraklas produced the earliest known written description of a string figure in his first century monograph on surgical knots and slings.

But when we put a piece of surgical thread in his hand, he began to tie beautiful little surgical knots, one-handed, without even knowing what he was doing.

A simple and useful knotted structure, the cow hitch has been known since at least the first century when described by Greek physician Heraklas in a monograph on surgical knots and slings.