How to Use heart attack in a Sentence

heart attack

noun
Definition of heart attacknext
  • He died of a massive heart attack.
  • Her chest pains turned out to be caused by a minor heart attack.
  • Then, in 1935, at the age of fifty-three, Baruch Israel died of a heart attack.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Patients with hearts in the shape of this pot are at greater risk of a heart attack.
    — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Birth control pills can raise the risk for blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks.
    — Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • All are grilled, all with a low chance of contributing to a heart attacks.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2024
  • In the movie, Lisa dies from a sudden heart attack while at a restaurant with Monk.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
  • This may increase the risk of heart attack and heart disease.
    — Lauren Krouse, Health, 9 June 2024
  • Blood clots raise the likelihood of heart attack and stroke.
    — Becky Upham, EverydayHealth.com, 8 Aug. 2024
  • His daughter Mika Ito said the cause was a heart attack.
    — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • One piece lodged near his heart and caused a mild heart attack a few days later.
    — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • These drugs can also lower the risk of events like heart attack or stroke.
    — Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Her death certificate listed the cause of death as a heart attack.
    — Dave Altimari and Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Doug suffered a heart attack after catching the two about to make love.
    — Michael Maloney, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Heartburn pain that is severe and lasts longer than 10 to 15 minutes may be due to a heart attack.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 6 Aug. 2023
  • In December of 2019, Cox died at his Arizona home of a heart attack.
    — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Health issues hit Anita in her 60s: a heart attack and two strokes.
    — AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The eldest struggled with depression and died of a heart attack in 2009.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • His daughter, Elisabeth Ryan, said the cause was a heart attack.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • At its worst, the blood loss could put women at the point of needing a transfusion and even at risk for a heart attack or stroke.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Earlier this year marked the 30th anniversary of the death of Candy, who died of a heart attack in his sleep.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 27 May 2024
  • The cause of death was a heart attack, his publicist, Jeff Abraham, confirmed to Rolling Stone.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Last spring, on a flight from Madrid to Bogotá, a man from Mauritania died of a heart attack.
    — Annie Correal Federico Rios, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Patients who had a heart attack or stroke within the last 60 days were not allowed to enroll in the trial.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Once a girl wrote to me that her dad had had a heart attack, and listening to my music relieved her.
    — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 12 July 2024
  • Jesus Gillette died July 27 in his wife's arms of a massive heart attack.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Aspirin The world's wonder drug may be able to ease everything from headaches to heart attacks.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Siobhan Morrissey.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Lee remembers waking up later in the night to the screams: His father had had a heart attack and was dead at 45.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • People don’t choose to have accidents, cancer or heart attacks.
    — Elyse Apel | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Aug. 2024

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