How to Use tourniquet in a Sentence

tourniquet

noun
Definition of tourniquetnext
  • The brother put a tourniquet on the girl's leg to slow blood loss.
    — Arkansas Online, 3 July 2022
  • The nurse took the leash off his board and made a basic tourniquet to stop the bleeding.
    — Outdoor Life, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Hanlon tied a tourniquet from the first aid kit around the man’s arm, and the bleeding slowed.
    — Madeline Buckley, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2020
  • The officer used a tourniquet to stop the bleeding on the child's leg.
    — The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Williams affixed a thin blue tourniquet to Figueroa’s arm and asked her to make a fist.
    — Joseph Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Smith applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding and the man survived.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2023
  • At first Schreier used her sweatshirt as a tourniquet and then a strap from the saddle.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Davis also told the station that surfers applied a tourniquet to the wound.
    — NBC News, 5 Oct. 2021
  • That’s why tourniquets and blood pressure cuffs can be painful.
    — Calli McMurray, STAT, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Someone gives the nurse a real tourniquet for Tony Pacheco.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • But a Navy medic was nearby and quickly put a tourniquet on each leg.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2021
  • Dunn put her in handcuffs and then applied a tourniquet on her leg.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The journalist dropped his camera and slipped the tourniquet over Grosskreutz’s arm, fumbling with the strap.
    — Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The dispatcher then instructed Cyrus to find things around the house to form a makeshift tourniquet.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Once that was handled, police applied a tourniquet to the 15-year-old boy’s leg.
    — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
  • Turecek, who was selling hot dogs in the area, helped lift the car off her leg and applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.
    — Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The three of them stemmed his wounds by tearing up his jeans and using them as a tourniquet, his sister said.
    — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Deputies applied tourniquets to his legs, and paramedics took him to a hospital.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2023
  • Hoping to stem the bleeding, the dispatcher tried to tell Hadar how to make a tourniquet from a piece of clothing.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • One of them is an off-duty lifeguard and applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.
    — oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Lavon Tilghman, 9, rushed to tie a tourniquet around the leg, tightly twisting a rod on the neon orange band.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The female deputy applied a tourniquet to her male colleague's bleeding arm and moved him away from the scene of the gunfire.
    — Mallory Hughes, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Gonzalez lifts the man’s left arm and starts wrapping a tourniquet around it near the elbow.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Officers put a tourniquet around his leg to stop the bleeding.
    — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
  • The bodycam video shows the officers approach Streeter and put a tourniquet on his leg, where he was shot.
    — Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The three models of kits contain up to 130 items like bandages, glucose, and a tourniquet.
    — Dallas News, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Blood flow restriction bands wrap around the muscle but are not tight like a tourniquet.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2022
  • The officers applied a tourniquet and medics took the man to a hospital, Butchart said.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Do not restrict blood flow by applying a tourniquet or icing the wound.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 25 June 2024
  • The most efficient and quickest way to do that: turn bystanders into immediate responders by teaching them to pack a wound and use a tourniquet.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 25 June 2024

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