How to Use defibrillator in a Sentence

defibrillator

noun
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  • In this season, when some want to harden and stop the heart of our democracy, we are being called like our foremothers and -fathers to be the moral defibrillator of our time.
    — Tommy Tomlinson, Esquire, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Senescu is now working to get healthy enough to go back to work at the fire station and be on the other end of a defibrillator, saving other lives along his coworkers.
    — Yadira Sanchez Olson, Lake County News-Sun, 24 May 2017
  • Instead galvanism led to life-saving interventions—the pacemaker and the defibrillator among them.
    — Charles Kenny, Slate Magazine, 16 Jan. 2017
  • If that’s so then the 2020 N.H.L. playoffs are like a defibrillator that has shocked the city’s rhythm back to life.
    — Carol Schram, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The trainers pulled her aside, grabbed a defibrillator and called the paramedics.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Hawkins said of Shoemake who told him to fetch one of the school’s four defibrillators.
    — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 17 May 2018
  • Milie said Lee was shocked twice with the defibrillator on the field.
    — Ben Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • A man dashes out of the house, grabs the defibrillator and carries it inside.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2017
  • Get back to Bryzzness The heart of the Cubs batting order could use a defibrillator.
    — Joe Knowles, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The officers used the defibrillator and CPR on the man, police said.
    — Joshua Sharpe, ajc, 25 Apr. 2018
  • 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 fire department had to do CPR and use a defibrillator.
    — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Paramedics were not able to revive the boy, and the Rays did not have access a defibrillator during their CPR efforts.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • 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
  • If that happens, his defibrillator shocks him to try to sync his heart back into rhythm.
    — Molly Duerig, azcentral, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Lilja and his nurse assistant gave the man CPR and shocked him with a defibrillator.
    — Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the anonymous passenger says, a flight attendant rushed to get a defibrillator from the front of the plane to help the woman.
    — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Thieves even took the defibrillator that was inside the trailer.
    — Carina Julig, The Denver Post, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The reason: all Parkrun events in the U.K. have to have an automatic defibrillator on hand.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Oct. 2021
  • But doctors quickly lost those signs of life, leading to the use of a defibrillator, Boesen said.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 13 June 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
  • Didn't feel the vigorous chest compressions or the shock of the defibrillator.
    — Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2017
  • One of our number, who wears a pacemaker and a defibrillator, was awoken at 3 AM of the first day by a terrific pain in his leg.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 19 Nov. 2020
  • First responders rushed to Lyons to revive him with use of a defibrillator.
    — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2022
  • When used within a few minutes, a defibrillator can shock the heart back into a normal rhythm.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • After his cardiac arrest, J.J. got a pacemaker that is also a defibrillator, to spare future close calls.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 29 June 2024
  • Morris has a history of cardiac disease, including stents and a defibrillator.
    — Sara Powers, CBS News, 12 June 2024

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