Examples of “lobotomy” in a Sentence

noun A now largely abandoned brain surgery that severs connections in the frontal lobe, once used to treat severe mental illness.

• The hospital performed lobotomies routinely in the 1950s before the practice fell out of favor.
• Old psychiatric hospitals are even more frightening. They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour. — Julie Albrecht Royce, Ghosts and Monsters of Lake Michigan—Haunting and Stalking the Sunset Coast (2007)

noun Figuratively, the removal or numbing of a capacity for thought or feeling.

• Watching reality TV for hours felt like a lobotomy.