How to Use resuscitate in a Sentence

resuscitate

verb
  • The patient stopped breathing but doctors were able to resuscitate him.
  • Nine points in a minute of game time to resuscitate his team.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Paramedics tried to resuscitate her, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Two dogs inside the home at the time of the fire were able to be resuscitated.
    — Sarah Hager, Cincinnati.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Alissa was resuscitated five times in the last three weeks of her life.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The agents were able to resuscitate the mother and the younger child, a 3-year-old boy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The officers place him on the floor and try to resuscitate him.
    — Washington Post, 2 June 2021
  • Even if a wet cellphone seems dead, there's a good chance it can be resuscitated.
    — Joel Johnson, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Green called for help and soon a team of staffers were in the room working to resuscitate the patient.
    — NBC News, 8 July 2019
  • This time, Barr killed the whole show, and nothing can resuscitate it this time.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
  • Could some young fighter emerge and resuscitate the meaning of those words?
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
  • These aren't the first steps in the city's efforts to resuscitate downtown.
    — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 4 May 2018
  • Each time there was a new batch of emails, the story was resuscitated in the public eye.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Reports said that attempts to resuscitate the boy had failed.
    — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Attempts were made to resuscitate Good, to no avail.
    — Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The falafel project is an attempt to resuscitate that business.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Paramedics said there was so much cyanide on her lips that anyone who tried to resuscitate her might have been poisoned as well.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Thou shalt not resuscitate a planning chat.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 18 May 2026
  • But leave it to Prada to resuscitate even the most dormant of menswear styles.
    — Jake Woolf, GQ, 19 June 2017
  • To the mother who didn’t want her daughter to suffer and signed a do-not-resuscitate form.
    — Shazia Memon, ajc, 29 Apr. 2017
  • This helps restore and resuscitate a franchise that was lagging the last few years.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • Kevin Pritchard is a man fighting to save face and resuscitate a franchise.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
  • When the child stopped breathing en route, Overton tried to resuscitate him.
    — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Does that mean he was heavily exposed at the bench, say from trying to resuscitate the pair?
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 12 Mar. 2018
  • His friends tried to save him, but he could not be resuscitated after being bitten on the legs.
    — CBS News, 6 June 2026
  • He was partially buried and attempts were made to resuscitate him but Brien died at the scene.
    — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The medics were able to resuscitate him and get him to a hospital for treatment, Kane said.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 8 July 2024
  • Also taking the stand were the two paramedics and a fire captain who tried to resuscitate Floyd.
    — Chao Xiong, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Although the first responders tried to resuscitate the young girls, they were pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024

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