How to Use nonresponsive in a Sentence

nonresponsive

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• The dog was nonresponsive, though his heart was still beating.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• Gilleon said the Bills never spoke to his client and characterized the team as largely nonresponsive to him.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2022
• When police noticed that Prude was limp and nonresponsive, paramedics were called over and CPR was started.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2022
• When police arrived, the victim was nonresponsive on the ground and not breathing.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2020
• Holley objected to that answer as being nonresponsive and asked that it be struck from the court record.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
• On Thursday, a woman died at the campground after she was found nonresponsive.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2022
• In this business, ego can cause people to be nonresponsive and demanding.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• A third company’s bid was rejected by the city as nonresponsive to the request for proposals.
  — Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 3 July 2017
• Floyd eventually became nonresponsive and died, and all four officers involved in his death have been fired and charged.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 9 July 2020
• The complex has also had problems with maintenance and waste, and management has been nonresponsive, Cheyne said.
  — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 5 July 2021
• Abienwi was nonresponsive, according to the statement, appeared to be paralyzed on the left side and was pronounced dead Oct. 1.
  — Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
• If the patient did not feel anything when stimulated, that electrode was marked as nonresponsive.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
• The department provided vague or nonresponsive answers, the filing alleged, and at times didn’t respond at all.
  — Phillip Jackson, baltimoresun.com, 10 May 2021
• The woman went from being able to respond to verbal commands to being nonresponsive, according to the Health Department.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Boosting your search ranking: Mobile-friendly websites tend to rank higher on Google than nonresponsive sites.
  — Ajay Prasad, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• Though the patient was initially nonresponsive, his heart rate suddenly jumped and grew stronger as the ceremony progressed.
  — Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• The transcripts also detailed the moments when the officers began to realize Floyd was nonresponsive or perhaps dead.
  — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 8 July 2020
• Prosecutors say that Barrera-Galdamez called police in the early morning hours of Sept. 20 and reported that her son was not breathing and nonresponsive.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2020
• The second handout said the enumerators were reaching out to nonresponsive households.
  — Geoff Hing, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• Her younger sister followed a similar path, and, in 2011, after having been arrested on an outstanding warrant, was found nonresponsive in her jail cell, Goldsmith said.
  — NBC News, 12 Dec. 2020
• When core body temperature reaches a hundred and four degrees and higher, a person can become confused or lost in a delirium, nonresponsive.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
• As in previous reviews of this system in various Jaguar Land Rover products, the infotainment system proved irritating to use and prone to glitches such as frozen screens, nonresponsive touch buttons, and so on.
  — Kevin A. Wilson, Car and Driver, 11 July 2017
• In some cases, the Census Bureau may use federal administrative records, which may be flawed or incomplete, to determine who is living in a nonresponsive home.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2020
• But over the past six months, MoviePass has invited a broad range of complaints, ranging from long waits for membership cards and nonresponsive customer service to specific theaters and movies being unexpectedly blacked out.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2018
• In some cases, the Census Bureau may use federal administrative records, which may be incomplete, to determine who is living in a nonresponsive home.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2020
• Upon arrival, officers found a woman lying in the roadway, unconscious and nonresponsive.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2023
• Even on requests that are eventually acquiesced to, Democratic aides told me the administration will often slow-roll those queries or provide nonresponsive answers.
  — Ella Nilsen, Vox, 17 July 2019
• That preparation kicked in when a woman became nonresponsive recently before a nearby produce market.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• Poor customer service issues — like nonresponsive prep programs — mean candidates and potential employers can’t always get quick answers about hiring and readiness.
  — Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024