How to Use save lives in a Sentence

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  • As the doctors race to try to save lives, the chaos presses in.
    Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The need of the hour is to prevent genocide and save lives, and three steps are crucial.
    Kholood Khair, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
  • To be fair, the flood warnings, which have been in place since 2018, save lives, as Google points out.
    Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
  • But Tsai remained steadfast that the rule would save lives.
    Timmy Broderick, STAT, 3 May 2024
  • Police are trained to rush to the scene as quickly as possible to save lives.
    Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The drug can save lives by reversing the effect of opioids.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The ease of access and convenience is helping to save lives.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Kelsey wondered if this ancient trait could be harnessed to save lives in new ways.
    C.j. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • As extreme heat becomes more common, ERs turn to body bags to save lives.
    Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 14 July 2023
  • There is, to be clear, no evidence that care robots can save lives.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Hopefully this summit will help prepare ships, and save lives in the process.
    Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • Uzi would try to save lives, just like his favorite superhero.
    Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2023
  • And to advance faster – to end the war sooner and save lives, the view here holds – requires even faster deliveries.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Kendra Loney, a spokesperson with Metro Fire, said rescue crews responded and tried to save lives.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But awareness and resolve to save our planet, to save lives and livelihoods, has never been stronger.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • That same impulse to help save lives is what keeps Father Myron constantly on the move.
    John Ismay Natalie Keyssar, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Mc Intyre said the rare condition needs to be publicized to save lives.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • These four stories - and the many more shared on the platform - have a simple message; medical treatment can and does save lives.
    Gemma Allen, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In the years that followed the tragedy, the athletes’ families charged Germany with botching its response to the attack and failing to save lives.
    Anika Arora Seth, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • But as the pandemic has shown many times, having tools—like vaccines and treatments—to save lives is just the beginning.
    Time, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Knowing when and where a hurricane could strike weeks or months in advance could save lives and billions of dollars.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
  • This pooling of data hides important signals that could be used to save lives.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Advertisement In the heat, sticking in groups can also save lives.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
  • One rescuer was able to rescue three children from the blaze, said Chief Butch Inks, who believes crews’ rapid response time may have helped save lives.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Wood said the purpose of the bill is to prevent accidents and save lives that could be lost because of distracted drivers.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Yet Sanders still credited Moderna with helping blunt the toll of the coronavirus and save lives.
    Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
  • What are other ways that mRNA technology can be used to save lives?
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Spirit of America stepped in to help, buying blankets off the shelf and getting them into Ukrainian hands in time to save lives.
    William Reno, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2023
  • For the entirety of the opioid overdose epidemic, the U.S. has had readily available tools that are proven to save lives.
    Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The floods, which dropped 20 months’ worth of rain in just eight hours on the city of Valencia and the surrounding areas, was a sudden, catastrophic event that many felt was worsened by a government response that came too slowly to save lives.
    Andrew Jones, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024

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