Example sentences for: rescue

How can you use “rescue” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The NYT reports that mudslides were a big killer, quoting a Nicaraguan rescue worker saying he could do nothing for the people buried in the debris he could hear begging for help.

  • ' " Another attack on China's humanitarian response came in the Jerusalem Post , which claimed that when Taiwan told China that it needed cash donations rather than rescue assistance, the mainland's Red Cross offered a mere $100,000 in cash and $60,000 in relief goods: "small indeed, when compared with the $50 million Taiwan has given to help flood-victims in China in recent years."

  • To control any extra or "breakthrough" pain, provide the patient with "as needed" rescue doses of the same immediate-acting opioid.

  • Of course, Gates comically stacks the deck with the Godwin example, since Godwin asks that we rescue the cleric, not in the name of truth but in the name of some sort of obnoxious aristocratic utilitarianism.

  • There's a one-in-two chance that Bob's full sibling Bill has the same gene and, thus, that a successful rescue mission will pluck an otherwise doomed copy of the gene from the dustbin of history.


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