How to Use heart attack in a Sentence

heart attack

noun
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  • He died of a massive heart attack.
  • Her chest pains turned out to be caused by a minor heart attack.
  • His mother died in her sleep of a heart attack at age 55 three years ago.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • If crowding out is like heart disease, this is a sudden heart attack.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 16 Aug. 2024
  • My mom telling me [on the answering machine] to 'pick up, pick up' because my grandpa had had a heart attack.
    — Elizabeth Leonard, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
  • It’s where her mother was saved after having a heart attack in the mid-1990s.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The cause was a heart attack, his booking agent Alison Chaplin said.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Mike Leach died suddenly this week from complications of a heart attack.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Warren Harding died from a heart attack after 2 years and 151 days.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The father of two and grandfather to five young grandchildren retired from his job as a car salesman after his heart attack.
    — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Wilson had spent more than a decade battling a litany of ailments, from respiratory failure to a heart attack.
    — David Lyman, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Another study found that higher levels of erythritol were found among patients who experienced either stroke, heart attack, blood clots or cardiovascular death, over the course of three years.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 12 Aug. 2024
  • 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

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