How to Use resuscitate in a Sentence

resuscitate

verb
  • The patient stopped breathing but doctors were able to resuscitate him.
  • Clark dashed back into the house to call 911, returned, and tried to resuscitate her with CPR.
    Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Kaberle arrived with the highest profile of the three and was pegged as the guy to resuscitate a stale power play and be the piece to put the team over the top.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Alissa was resuscitated five times in the last three weeks of her life.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The women rushed inside the house, where the nurse tried to resuscitate Adam Janus and the other called for an ambulance.
    Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The falafel project is an attempt to resuscitate that business.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Street medics attempted to resuscitate Munera, but the wound in his neck was too severe.
    Wil Sands, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Members of his group pulled him out of the water and began CPR, but he could not be resuscitated.
    Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2023
  • This helps restore and resuscitate a franchise that was lagging the last few years.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • The actor’s heart stopped for five minutes, and doctors broke eight of his ribs trying to resuscitate him.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Officers were unable to resuscitate Thompson in the cell, where he’d been held for around three months.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Gulf Shores Fire Rescue were unable to resuscitate the victim and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 25 May 2023
  • Stede finds him there and tries to resuscitate him, and Blackbeard senses his presence.
    Laura Zornosa, TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The story of this album is like resuscitating an old friend or bringing something back to life but in a new way.
    Grant Sharples, SPIN, 28 Apr. 2023
  • First responders on the scene were unable to resuscitate him, Brou said.
    Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Park officials brought back the winter version of the event in December, and are now resuscitating the spring event for the first time in three years.
    oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The second victory—just as big, if not bigger, from a strategic point of view—is that the West has been resuscitated.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
  • He was resuscitated at the scene and transported to a hospital in the city of Chur by air ambulance.
    Dayna Haffenden, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
  • The park said trip members tried to resuscitate her, without success.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The best shampoos for people in this camp should add density and volume to the hair, or at least resuscitate it from looking limp and lifeless.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 26 June 2022
  • An emergency room physician tried to resuscitate him for three hours and then pronounced him dead.
    Maham Javaid, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Summoned to the neonatal unit, the baby's parents saw medics trying to resuscitate their child, Fox News reports.
    Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Many victims were receiving CPR and had their costumes taken off to allow medics at the scene to resuscitate them.
    Matt Meyer, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
  • He was pronounced dead on the scene following efforts to resuscitate him.
    Paradise Afshar, CNN, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Over the past few decades, Russia has been trying to resuscitate its program, but with little success.
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Police said first responders tried to resuscitate the victim, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Despite attempts to resuscitate him, the man suffered an anoxic brain injury -- a complete lack of oxygen to the brain -- and was declared brain dead.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • If there is an attempt to resuscitate a stillborn baby, that pressure can inflate the lungs.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Hamlin collapsed and was resuscitated on the field just before halftime of the Bills-Bengals game in Cincinnati on Jan. 2.
    Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The 25-year-old Hamlin suffered a cardiac after in a January game against the Cincinnati Bengals and had to be resuscitated on the field.
    Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023

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