How to Use brain-dead in a Sentence

brain-dead

adjective

• The young boy of prophecy gets trampled into a brain-dead coma.
  — Darren Franich, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
• He was declared brain-dead that day and taken off life support two days later.
  — City News Service, Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
• Three days later, he was declared brain-dead and taken off life support.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• She’s rushed to the nearest hospital, where she is pronounced brain-dead.
  — Brea Baker, Refinery29, 22 May 2025
• She was declared brain-dead and the cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to the head.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 22 July 2025
• Then, out of nowhere, she gets hit by a van, leaving her comatose and brain-dead in the hospital.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
• Newkirk said her daughter was declared brain-dead and placed on a ventilator.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 17 June 2025
• There are circumstances in which a patient who isn’t brain-dead may still become an organ donor.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
• The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead.
  — ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
• Blood in a brain-dead patient circulated through a pig’s liver that was outside the person’s body.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
• The first transplants were short-term experiments in patients who were brain-dead, so there was no further risk to human health.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
• The Penn team plans to refine the procedure on an additional three brain-dead people.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
• Even rarer still are cases in which doctors aim to prolong the pregnancy after a woman is declared brain-dead.
  — CBS News, 15 May 2025
• Maddie was taken to the hospital, but three days later was declared brain-dead, Grobmeier said.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
• Looked at one way, this is just another example of how brain-dead partisanship is ruining our civic life.
  — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 21 Oct. 2025
• The recluse of 30 years comes out of hibernation and emerges with a new album that fires up more brain-dead devotion and fawning.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
• Angela suffered a seizure and was declared brain-dead on March 15 and later removed from life support.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2023
• He was reportedly revived at a hospital but was declared brain-dead and removed from life support.
  — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
• Thankfully, Mario Kart World isn’t as brain-dead and overly corporate as the above sounds.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
• Nichols, who was placed on a ventilator upon arrival at the hospital, was also brain-dead at the time of his death, the report shows.
  — C Mandler, CBS News, 4 May 2023
• These studies lasted days or weeks because of ethical concerns over how long experiments can be run on brain-dead people.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• Alive first reported that a brain-dead pregnant woman was being kept alive by doctors until her fetus can survive outside the womb.
  — Kristal Dixon, Axios, 21 May 2025
• One woman who crashed while transporting five migrants, leaving two dead, one brain-dead and one paralyzed from the waist down, was sentenced to eight years in prison.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2025
• Not for her health or out of any hope of recovery, but to sustain her fetus — a fetus that was only nine weeks along when Smith was declared brain-dead.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 21 May 2025
• Suffice to say, kids were clear which group was which (brilliant/average/brain-dead), and more to the point, by Day 2 of school, the parents were, too.
  — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
• Doctors later told the family that Samuel is brain-dead and remains unresponsive.
  — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
• Rushed by medics to Jacobi Medical Center, he was pronounced brain-dead and placed on life support.
  — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 15 June 2024
• A week later, he was taken to surgery to have his organs removed for donation — even though his heart was beating and he hadn’t been declared brain-dead, Zohny said.
  — Cara Anthony, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
• These are usually victims of accidents or brain injuries who have been declared brain-dead but whose other organs will keep working as long as the body is kept on life support.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Anthony was brain-dead and had no pulse when paramedics arrived at his family’s Lancaster home, prosecutors said.
  — Noah Goldbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023