How to Use brain-dead in a Sentence

brain-dead

adjective

• Two days later, doctors told her Elijah was brain-dead.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Three days later, he was declared brain-dead and taken off life support.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• There are circumstances in which a patient who isn’t brain-dead may still become an organ donor.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
• In 2022 a newborn named Owen Monroe became the first infant to receive such a transplant from a brain-dead newborn donor.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
• He was declared brain-dead a day after the altercation.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 29 June 2023
• Angela suffered a seizure and was declared brain-dead on March 15 and later removed from life support.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2023
• The Penn team plans to refine the procedure on an additional three brain-dead people.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
• Nichols, who was placed on a ventilator upon arrival at the hospital, was also brain-dead at the time of his death, the report shows.
  — C Mandler, CBS News, 4 May 2023
• On a gurney, a brain-dead patient lay connected to a whirring Rube Goldberg-esque machine: a tangle of tubes and siphons on wheels.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
• Craig was charged with first-degree murder March 19 for spiking 43-year-old Angela Craig's protein shakes with cyanide and arsenic, which left the mother of six brain-dead.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Watch on He later died after suffering from a stroke that left him brain-dead and being taken off life support.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2023
• Maddie was taken to the hospital, but three days later was declared brain-dead, Grobmeier said.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
• Rushed by medics to Jacobi Medical Center, he was pronounced brain-dead and placed on life support.
  — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 15 June 2024
• But before then, the researchers want to conduct more tests in people who are brain-dead, including those whose own liver is not functioning, and see whether the pig livers can function for up to one week.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
• Another 15 to 19 are based in hospitals, but devoted to only brain-dead organ donors.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 25 June 2024
• These are usually victims of accidents or brain injuries who have been declared brain-dead but whose other organs will keep working as long as the body is kept on life support.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• The girl was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced brain-dead and eventually taken off life support, FOX 19 reported.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 26 May 2024
• For the first time, organ donors who were declared brain-dead were moved out of the hospital and into an independent, freestanding center to have their organs removed.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 25 June 2024
• These studies lasted days or weeks because of ethical concerns over how long experiments can be run on brain-dead people.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• Anthony was brain-dead and had no pulse when paramedics arrived at his family’s Lancaster home, prosecutors said.
  — Noah Goldbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Especially in the earlier games, saving was heavily restricted, and progress could be easily lost—one brain-dead stumble can set you back an hour.
  — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
• Wiggs was initially arrested for first-degree domestic assault, The Star reported, as his wife was alive but brain-dead after the attack.
  — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2024
• Daniel was brain-dead and transported to a hospital, where his family ultimately decided to take him off life support.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Also, unnatural herds of crabs roam the land, and a brain-dead patient who’s about to have his organs harvested suddenly revives on the operating table.
  — Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
• Florida authorities arrested a suspect after his fight with a man outside a gas station last month allegedly caused the victim to go brain-dead.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 29 June 2023
• Surgeons had previously tested a pig kidney transplant on brain-dead patients.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 9 July 2024
• He was declared brain-dead Tuesday afternoon by the Lincoln County coroner, according to the criminal complaint.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 26 June 2024
• Keeping a pig kidney in a brain-dead person for such a long-time, Montgomery said, will help address questions raised by similar experiments in nonhuman primates.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• The brain-dead do not usually respond to future life-affirming activities.
  — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• Police had investigated it as a felony DUI collision but said there would be no more investigative efforts after Heche was declared brain-dead.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024