How to Use lifesaving in a Sentence

lifesaving

1 of 2 adjective

• The midwife gave her three lifesaving breaths on my chest, and my husband was there.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 23 July 2019
• Why draw the line at selling rare marrow, for which the need is so critical and lifesaving?
  — WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
• After the colt had lifesaving stomach surgery, Littman sold Lil E. Tee to his blacksmith for $2,000.
  — Dick Jerardi, Philly.com, 3 May 2017
• But denial can be a lifesaving thing, in certain lives, in certain times.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• The lifesaving devices broke down over time and were auctioned off by the city at least five years ago because the agency couldn’t afford to maintain them.
  — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 6 Apr. 2020
• All funds raised at the storytelling event will benefit lifesaving care of pets at CHS.
  — Courant Community, 17 Apr. 2018
• An unknown number travel outside the country to buy the lifesaving drug for less.
  — Emily Rauhala, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2019
• The city’s lease for the training station, where firefighters practice lifesaving skills, ends in 2024.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 23 Feb. 2020
• In the case of Heparin, said Biddinger, the hospital got as close as two weeks away from having to cancel lifesaving cardiac surgery.
  — NBC News, 2 Nov. 2019
• Many patients turn down the potentially lifesaving treatment, fearing that the cure is at least as bad as the disease.
  — Ron Winslow, WSJ, 28 May 2018
• There were over 1,000 lifeguards from across the nation who came to test their lifesaving skills for team and individual awards.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• Click here to learn more about this potentially lifesaving app.
  — Kim Komando, Fox News, 14 May 2017
• The city of Milwaukee honored her for her lifesaving efforts.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2018
• For saving the 1-year-old boy from choking to death, Hartford police honored Kidik with the department’s lifesaving award.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 18 May 2018
• Keep these lifesaving tools in an outer coat pocket or somewhere they could be quickly grabbed, if needed.
  — Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2020
• It could be caused simply by the lifesaving efforts of firemen hosing a flaming building.
  — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2018
• That produced a result that showed the lifesaving potential of earlier screening, the group said.
  — Author: Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2018
• Take the EpiPen, the lifesaving device for kids and adults with severe allergies, whose price was famously hiked up over 500% in the years after it was acquired by Mylan.
  — Josh Hoxie, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2017
• But as the peacekeeping budget runs low, the UN’s ability to enact lifesaving missions is strained.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2019
• The group was tasked with finding a way to stabilize blood plasma proteins so that soldiers could receive lifesaving transfusions in the field.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• The agency has to walk a fine line — balancing the urgent need to get lifesaving devices in the hands of doctors, and ensuring stopgap solutions are still safe.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 15 Apr. 2020
• Just a few years ago, the major lifesaving effort was cutting off the supply of unwanted animals through spay and neuter programs.
  — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Without the immediate lifesaving breaths and shock from the AED, Maeve’s story would have a much different ending.
  — Tracey Rarich, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019
• Reports have emerged from Italy about doctors choosing who would receive lifesaving medical care and who would not.
  — Kelly Michelson, STAT, 2 Apr. 2020
• His belly swollen, his energy flagging, 45-year-old Jorge Perez Remache waits in his Queens apartment for word that his turn has come to receive a lifesaving liver transplant.
  — Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
• Canadians overpay for medicines by billions of dollars each year, and yet millions cannot afford lifesaving medicines.
  — Danielle Martin, STAT, 28 Oct. 2019
• Some inmates are leaving the Bexar County Jail with a parting gift — the lifesaving medication Narcan.
  — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• The octagonal sign used the bank's blue and yellow eagle symbol, whose 49-foot wingspan turned out to be a lifesaving feature for one maintenance worker.
  — azcentral, 6 Apr. 2017
• Police provided lifesaving efforts but the man died before he could be taken to a hospital.
  — Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 June 2018
• Arlington firefighters and medics arrived and took over lifesaving efforts, placing the girl on a backboard and floating her to the other side of the river to an aid car, according to the sheriff’s office.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017

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lifesaving

2 of 2 noun

• All lifeguards are trained in lifesaving.
• The agency said those cuts will force it to suspend lifesaving aid at a time when famine is looming.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
• When there isn’t enough lifesaving care to go around, those who need more than others may be in trouble.
  — Patti Greco, Health.com, 10 Apr. 2020
• But after the lifesaving rescue, his résumé is off to a good start.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• In a news release about the lifesaving award, the agency said four officers found the teen suffering from wounds to the back and chest.
  — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• Balto was Kaasen’s lead dog during the serum run and thus was at the forefront as the team entered Nome carrying the lifesaving serum.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2020
• Pets like Spangle, who truly is a testament to not only the lifesaving work AHS does each day but his will to live.
  — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• But getting even a few of the lifesaving machines has proved a huge challenge as hospitals around the world jockey for the scarce supply.
  — K Oanh Ha, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2020
• When choosing such a critical piece of lifesaving (and fun) equipment, make sure to match the product with your child’s age, size, and swimming habits.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 8 May 2020
• Patients who were conscious when the device went off frequently described the jolt as a somewhat painful, if lifesaving, kick in the chest.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• In 1897, a keeper arrived at the lifesaving station in Narragansett Pier, nearly naked and bleeding from a wound in his back.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• The witness, Martin Montalvo, was handed a lifesaving award later that month for the deed.
  — Nicole Hensley, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2020
• Then there is the issue of who should get scarce lifesaving treatments: one who has been vaccinated or one who has refused the vaccine?
  — Ryan Liu, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2022
• During training, conscripts will work with modern weapons such as drones and practice first aid and lifesaving skills.
  — Eric Cheung, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
• The troopers caught up, pulled Cobb out and attempted lifesaving measures.
  — Trisha Ahmed, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
• Meanwhile, of the 279 U.S. coastal lifesaving stations, only a handful were on the Pacific.
  — Longreads, 4 May 2023
• Oliver was with a friend, who attempted lifesaving measures and then drove her to a nearby fire station.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• Statistics show that bystanders do CPR only about a third of the time and that women are less likely to receive the lifesaving procedure than men.
  — Juno Demelo, Woman's Day, 25 May 2018
• He was then uncuffed and lifesaving measures were taken.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023
• Brookfield officers and paramedics performed lifesaving measures, but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2023
• Personnel were able to pull the man from the water, but lifesaving measures were unsuccessful.
  — The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2023
• Public domain The lifesaving serum the residents needed was in Anchorage, some 674 miles away, and the engine of the single available aircraft froze and wouldn't start.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2023
• The firefighter had a rope and a lifesaving ring, but didn’t need to use them since Rupert got right into his arms so the firefighter could carry him above the freezing, shallow water.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• Deputies responded and attempted lifesaving measures, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• But there’s another lifesaving measure that could also help reduce covid deaths — and deaths from lots of other diseases, too.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
• The Cape Cod institution sits inside a former lifesaving station that was built in the late 19th century.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2023
• When Narcan finally becomes available over the counter later this year, the price may put the lifesaving antidote out of reach for many people, experts say.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
• But health experts warn this line of thinking could be used to criminalize doctors who provide lifesaving care.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Rodgers has received more than a dozen letters of commendation throughout his tenure at LMPD and as well as a distinguished lifesaving award in 2019, according to his personnel file.
  — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2024
• Deputies moved in and provided immediate lifesaving measures before medics took him in an ambulance to a hospital, Gandhi said.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024