How do you use the word "clinic" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "clinic" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "clinic": I appeal to you to contribute to the new clinic. His clinic has lost many patients since the scandal.

Clinic Meaning

/ˈklɪn.ɪk/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

nounA hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.

Sentence Examples

I appeal to you to contribute to the new clinic.

His clinic has lost many patients since the scandal.

Your local family planning clinic can give you advice about birth control.

CEFR Practice Quiz

She visited the local ____ for a routine health checkup yesterday.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I have an appointment at the local dental ____ tomorrow morning.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti Proto-Hellenic *klíňňō Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō) Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek κλῑ́νη (klī́nē) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek κλῑνῐκός (klīnĭkós)bor. Late Latin clīnicus French cliniquebor. English clinic Borrowed from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “bed”), from κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"We'll also be offering music clinics, lessons, and new product demonstrations throughout the year." — 1986, Music Trades, volume 134, numbers 1-6, page 38:

"We are all Clinicks in this point" — 1666, Sancroft, 'Lex Ignea 41:

"The conclusion is inevitable , that pouring or sprinkling was regarded, in the primitive church, as valid baptism; and of course that immersion was not considered essential. It has been objected, indeed, that the clinics were canonically prohibited the priesthood. But why were they prohibited? Not because of the informality of their batism; but because their sincerity had not been sufficiently tested." — 1833, Enoch Pond, Treatise on Christian Baptism, page 43:

"Clinic baptism is all that is contemplated by them, and even in this case a clinic was, unless in unusual cases, debarred from orders." — 1861, James Chrystal, A History of the Modes of Christian Baptism, page 97:

"Whitby (on Rom. vi. 4). —"It being so expressly declared here, and Col. ii. 12, that we are buried with Christ in baptism by being buried under water; and the argument to oblige us to a conformity to His death, by dying to sin, being taken hence; and this immersion being religiously observed by all Christians for thirteen centuries, and approved by our church, and the change of it into sprinkling even without any allowance from the author of this institution, or any licence from any refusal of the cup to the laity; it were to be wished that this custom might be again of general use, and aspersion only permitted, as of old, in the case of the clinic, or in present danger of death."" — 1865, Richard Ingham, A Hand-book on Christian Baptism:

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