How to Use defibrillator in a Sentence

defibrillator

noun

• Milie said Lee was shocked twice with the defibrillator on the field.
  — Ben Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
• Staff waited by her side with a defibrillator in case her heart gave out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• With the use of a defibrillator, the odds of survival greatly increase.
  — Jackson Tolliver, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• The series’ health officer then ran to her car and got a defibrillator, which was used on the actor three times, Odenkirk told Stern.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2022
• Paramedics used a defibrillator to start Kriewaldt’s heart and inserted a tube down his throat to get air into his lungs.
  — jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• The reason: all Parkrun events in the U.K. have to have an automatic defibrillator on hand.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Oct. 2021
• That and a nation-sized defibrillator to end the chaos and reset the country on a healthier way forward.
  — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 13 June 2022
• One man had a red soccer jersey pulled over his face as he was treated with a defibrillator.
  — Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
• First responders rushed to Lyons to revive him with use of a defibrillator.
  — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2022
• The idea for the implantable defibrillator came from Dr. Mirowski, who had lost one of his mentors in Israel to a sudden heart failure.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• When performed at the band’s shows, the song carries the emotional charge of a defibrillator serving its purpose.
  — Aileen Goos, SPIN, 30 Nov. 2023
• Others are not with people who know how to perform CPR or have access to a defibrillator.
  — Kevin G. Volpp, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
• State park staff performed CPR and used a defibrillator.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2022
• The screaming father told the emergency responders not to give up, reaching for their defibrillator to try to bring his son back to life.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2022
• Paramedics also used a defibrillator to try to revive him.
  — Sophie Carson, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2022
• So the massive heart attack wound up putting in a pacemaker-defibrillator in him.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 June 2022
• In the 81st minute, after a man in the stands behind Cádiz’s goal collapsed, Ledesma raced to the dugout to retrieve a medical kit with a defibrillator, then sprinted back to the stands to throw the kit to the medical staff.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• The decision was then made to fit the 29-year-old with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).
  — Ben Church, CNN, 18 June 2021
• After 2-3 minutes of CPR, which seemed much longer to the bystanders, and one shock by a defibrillator, Patel’s heart began beating again.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2022
• But the movie seems to mistake the taut minimalism of the original for something that needs to be goosed and adrenalized, a thriller on constant defibrillator.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• The two agents rendered aid to the driver by trying to resuscitate him and by using a defibrillator.
  — The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
• He was saved by USC athletic trainers who used a defibrillator and called 911.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• Cliff tries to go straight, peddling defibrillators from the back of his Oldsmobile — a sign his career is on life support — whereas Ricky is a man without morals, running drugs and guns for the worst kind of clients.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
• For decades, medical experts and scientists have tried to shine a light on how to save the life of a person in cardiac arrest by using a defibrillator.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 2 Jan. 2024
• In the same year, flight attendants saved four lives by using an onboard defibrillator.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2022
• Furthermore, the defibrillator wasn’t requested by the P.E. teachers or the school nurse, according to the trial brief.
  — Alejandra Reyes-Velardestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• He was fitted for a LifeVest (a wearable defibrillator).
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2022
• But taking an Uber for a heart attack is no safer than riding with a friend, since your driver’s sedan probably won’t have an EKG machine or defibrillator.
  — Ken Budd, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
• Two agents rendered aid to the driver by trying to resuscitate him and by using a defibrillator.
  — The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• The boy was brought to the lifeguard after being pulled from the pool by his father, while Morris went in search of an automatic external defibrillator (AED).
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024