Example Sentences

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"Luckily, they had an emergency kit, which to my utter surprise, included resuscitative medication to enable life support."

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2023

“Three Minutes: A Lengthening” winds up being a fascinatingly contradictory film, exemplifying both loss and the resuscitative work of memory, and the permanence and fragility of film as a material object.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022

Keillor wrote mock commercials for fake products like “expeditious” Powdermilk Biscuits, made by Norwegian bachelor farmers, and “Beebopareebop rhubarb pie,” which was billed as resuscitative.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2016

"Anything that takes more time to get to the driver is time lost in resuscitative massage to save someone with an airway obstruction and breathing," he said.

From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2015

She peeks into the ambulance as she crosses the street, sees the resuscitative equipment but no people.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri