How to Use pacemaker in a Sentence

pacemaker

noun
  • The signals are to the subway what a pacemaker is to the heart.
    Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 15 June 2017
  • Yes, the newest on-the-market pacemaker has just done the trick.
    Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • And with that, the first implantable pacemaker had its start.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Now with some help from a pacemaker, Packard has slowed down, but isn't quite done yet.
    Lacey Latch, AZCentral.com, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The last pacemaker dropped off at the 25K mark, leaving Kipchoge on his own.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The doctors, in need of a miracle, installed a pacemaker and called a priest to give the child last rites.
    Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Acetylcholine binds to special pacemaker cells to slow the heart rate down.
    Anne R. Crecelius, The Conversation, 20 June 2019
  • In 2016 he was fitted with a pacemaker because of a slow pulse.
    John Wawrow, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The 94-year-old recently had a pacemaker put in his chest.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Think of the difference between eyeglasses, which touch the body, and a pacemaker, which lies next to the heart.
    NBC News, 31 May 2017
  • Irwin had to then go through a second surgery to remove the pacemaker, the complaint said.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2024
  • The mother of two suffered from heart problems and had a pacemaker.
    Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Later on, Savtchenko hopes this method can be used to build a better pacemaker.
    Angela Chen, The Verge, 18 May 2018
  • Last year, Netanyahu had surgery to implant a pacemaker in his heart.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Shae included how the chemo drug weakened her heart enough to need a pacemaker installed at the age of 35.
    David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The electrodes can remain in place for life, but the pacemaker needs to be replaced every nine years.
    Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Soon enough, my bill for the pacemaker transplant arrived by mail.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • The researchers formed a ball of cardiac cells to act as a pacemaker and made a bridge of cells that connected the cardiac cells to the flank muscles.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
  • If the heart of Japan is in the countryside, then the main island Honshu is its thumping pacemaker.
    David McElhenney, CNN, 27 Dec. 2021
  • There, Bannister caught the eye of coaches while serving as a pacemaker for a mile race in 1947.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Although the event left her with a lifetime of medication and a pacemaker, Sanders saw the bright side.
    Nancy Baldwin, Dallas News, 30 June 2020
  • At just 27 years old, a pacemaker was implanted in his chest to help with his heart issues.
    Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, 30 May 2021
  • The influx of ions that started in the pacemaker cells could spread to the muscles, driving a contraction.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The top women, who were expected to take off at 2:17 pace, opted not to run with the pacemaker, which slowed down the entire field.
    Johanna Gretschel, Outside Online, 10 May 2019
  • When the twins were two years old, Lily was diagnosed with a third-degree heart block, and received a pacemaker.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 26 July 2022
  • But if the pacemaker is just a temporary precaution, it’s all got to come out.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 16 July 2021
  • He was taken to a hospital and a pacemaker was installed in his heart.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 6 July 2021
  • The 73-year-old was fitted with a pacemaker over the weekend, in his second hospital stay in two weeks.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 24 July 2023
  • The same heart doctor implanted a pacemaker, Hitt said.
    Daniel Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
  • But even the best pacemakers drift; in one form or another, creeping chaos eventually corrupts the order of any timekeeping system.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024

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