How to Use lifesaving in a Sentence

lifesaving

1 of 2 adjective
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  • 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
  • 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
  • In Italy, doctors have been forced to choose which coronavirus patients will receive lifesaving treatments.
    — NBC News, 26 Mar. 2020
  • 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

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