How to Use unresponsive in a Sentence

unresponsive

adjective
  • O’Keefe was found unresponsive in the front yard of the home at 6 a.m.
    — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 1 July 2024
  • The 2-year-old was unresponsive and the dad called 911, Brunenkant said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 10 July 2024
  • The man had been shot in the torso and was unresponsive.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Deputies launched a drone and found the tiger unresponsive.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The child found unresponsive on a school bus on Jan. 24 this year, the release said.
    — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2022
  • When the manager walked in, the two men were found unresponsive, the LAPD said.
    — Fox News, 14 May 2022
  • The woman was unresponsive at the time and could not be revived.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
  • Doaks was found unresponsive and the roadway and pronounced dead on the scene at 8:48 p.m.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 29 June 2022
  • The woman was unresponsive, and she was declared dead at the scene.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The local ski patrol brought the unresponsive teen to a clinic at the base of a mountain.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The two men were unresponsive, and both were pronounced dead by medics on the scene, the news release stated.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The hiker, a 56-year-old woman, was found on the trail unresponsive.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 23 July 2024
  • Firefighters pulled the unresponsive man from the home and performed CPR at the scene.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The meeting comes as Russia has been unresponsive to the U.S.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The victim was unresponsive and a Code Blue had been called earlier in the night around 8:30 p.m.
    — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2024
  • In the video an officer is seen dragging the man, who looks to be unresponsive.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The deputy dragged Serna — who appeared to be unresponsive — back inside her cell and left her on the floor.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Now Brandon, not yet out of high school, lay on the ground, bleeding and unresponsive.
    — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2022
  • When briefly asked, James did not speak and appeared to be unresponsive.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The duo was found unresponsive but breathing near Waller, Texas, the sheriff said.
    — NBC News, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The man was found unresponsive and died at the scene, according to police.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Troopers rushed to the site and found the female driver unresponsive.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • At some point, the younger man struck the older man with a closed fist to the face causing the older man to fall to the ground and become unresponsive, police said.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The same goes for devices that have gone missing or those that are unresponsive.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Ski area staff found Page unresponsive near the Upper Maple Slalom trail.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The two men who went to help looked in the vehicle and found Clayton unresponsive in the driver’s seat with her four children in the back seat.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 26 July 2024
  • Early on the morning of Sept. 28, he was found unresponsive in his cell and not breathing.
    — Kelly Davis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The caller told police a man was shot and unresponsive.
    — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The front seat passenger, identified as 25-year-old Felix Vasquez of Hartford, was unresponsive on the scene and was transported to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead, Boisvert said.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2025
  • Per radio traffic reviewed by CBS News, concerns for the plane were first made at around 10:01 a.m., when the pilot was unresponsive after failing to turn once alerted of another aircraft.
    — Raven Brunner, People.com, 18 May 2025

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