mouth-to-mouth

adjective

1. designating a method of artificial respiration involving blowing air rhythmically into the mouth of a person who has stopped breathing, to stimulate return of spontaneous breathing

Example Sentences

“She was responding to the chest compressions. She was responding to the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a positive way,” he said.

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She had blood on her mouth, possibly from giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

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One night over dinner in 2022, the couple discussed — as scientists in love do — a new genetic study that linked modern herpes variants to mouth-to-mouth kissing in the Bronze Age, roughly 3300 B.C. to 1200 B.C.

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You don't give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a zombie.

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For years, women have been warned of, and often forced to endure, mouth-to-mouth sexual harassment, often in an atmosphere that categorized such acts as just part of life or even the subject of humor.

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