Sample Sentences for
resuscitate
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    He placed his left hand over it and began to pump in the manner of someone attempting to resuscitate a drowning victim.†  (source)
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    If your lungs grabbed up all the oxygen, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation wouldn't work.†  (source)
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    I put him down on his back, tilted his head back, and began mouth-to mouth resuscitation.†  (source)
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    You've been through resuscitation and renewal several times but you probably don't remember because of the fugue hangover.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    And so he ran down and tried to resuscitate him.†  (source)
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    It had been discarded after long years of service, only to be resuscitated by a lanky, hollow-eyed ex-R. A. F. pilot who had delusions about starting his own airline in the Canadian North.†  (source)
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    Bobbie looked at the body on the ground and realized that it didn't matter, there was no possibility of resuscitating him.†  (source)
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    She peeks into the ambulance as she crosses the street, sees the resuscitative equipment but no people.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    We tried the usual resuscitations, of course, but it was more for form than from hope.†  (source)
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    I tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.†  (source)
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    I was bothered by a single thought when I tried to resuscitate my images of Al Durrell: It was easy to imagine him dead.†  (source)
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    Once they resuscitated her at the hospital, the police found some outstanding bad-check warrants, so she'd had to choose: rehab or jail.†  (source)
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    Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person, that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner, that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation.†  (source)
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