How to Use unresponsive in a Sentence

unresponsive

adjective
  • The woman was unresponsive at the time and could not be revived.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
  • The woman was unresponsive, and she was declared dead at the scene.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • In the video an officer is seen dragging the man, who looks to be unresponsive.
    Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The deputy dragged Serna — who appeared to be unresponsive — back inside her cell and left her on the floor.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Troopers rushed to the site and found the female driver unresponsive.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The caller told police a man was shot and unresponsive.
    Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2024
  • After 15 long minutes of CPR back at the shore, the unresponsive boy finally had a faint pulse.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Warwick, 60, put on a pair of gloves and gently collected the unresponsive bats one by one.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • At 5:28, a dispatcher tells the commander that someone is unresponsive at the day care, and the commander says a boat is on the way.
    Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The first woman is walking and sits in the back of the truck; the other two people seem to be unresponsive, but their condition is unknown.
    CBS News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The actor was found unresponsive and confirmed dead by paramedics around 11:30 a.m.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The report released Monday said Johnson was found unresponsive in the room lying on the bed.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2023
  • In the second death, Evans was found unresponsive in his private cell at 2:55 a.m. Sunday.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The boy was unresponsive and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • He was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Earlier this month, a 33-year-old man died days after he was found unresponsive in a Vista jail cell.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023
  • When police arrived at the home, the child was unresponsive, in cardiac arrest.
    Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Dorothy Brinker was unresponsive on the ground with her legs partially underneath the truck.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Six days later, Perry was found unresponsive in the same hot tub and was soon after pronounced dead at age 53.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023
  • On arrival, officers found a man unresponsive, and they were told the man was struck by a vehicle.
    Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2023
  • Officers had arrived around 2:30 a.m. Sept. 6 to find Bell at the bus stop, unresponsive.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Lewis, who lived in a first floor condo with his wife, was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene, Cambridge police said in a statement.
    John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
  • The Friends star, who publicly struggled with drugs and alcohol for decades, was found unresponsive in a hot tub in his home in Los Angeles on Oct. 28 at the age of 54.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Perry, who was open about his struggles with addiction for years, was found unresponsive in a hot tub on Oct. 28 and declared dead at the scene.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • About a month and a half after he was found unresponsive in a hot tub on October 28, Matthew Perry’s cause of death has been revealed.
    Vulture, 16 Dec. 2023
  • In October he was found unresponsive in the hot tub at his Los Angeles-area home.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Deputies were dispatched to Browning’s home in Union, Kentucky, at 1:01 p.m. after he was found unresponsive on his couch.
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Four children were found in the second bedroom unresponsive, though no adults were found inside.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The baby was left unattended for more than two hours before he was found unresponsive, Boston said in the statement.
    Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Three of the children were found unresponsive in the back of the home and appeared to have been stabbed multiple times in the abdominal area, according to the affidavit.
    Aria Jones, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023

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