How to Use defibrillator in a Sentence

defibrillator

noun

• A man dashes out of the house, grabs the defibrillator and carries it inside.
  — Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• Drones will deliver small, rarely used items like cardiac defibrillators.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• Didn't feel the vigorous chest compressions or the shock of the defibrillator.
  — Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2017
• Karen would have three internal defibrillators implanted since, but started to not feel well in 2013.
  — Mirin Fader, Orange County Register, 12 June 2017
• Thank goodness for the defibrillators located strategically around the park.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 May 2017
• An experimental study in Sweden suggests drones equipped with heart defibrillators could help with response times for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
  — Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• As church members prayed nearby, paramedics were directed by Bence to try a double shock — two defibrillators simultaneously.
  — Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024