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How to use rescue in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Rescue means to save from any violence, danger or evil. Example: “The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.”

Examples of rescue by meaning

verbTo save from any violence, danger or evil.

  • The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.
  • Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition was lost with two ships and 129 men, inspiring dozens of subsequent expeditions to find and rescue him, none of them successful.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 586
  • Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.2004, John Pym, editor, Time Out Film Guide, page 70

verbTo free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

  • to rescue a prisoner from the enemy

verbTo remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.

  • Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.

verbTo achieve something positive under difficult conditions.

  • Jews rescued some normalcy from increasingly difficult times by assuaging their constant Angst in the family and community and making do with less.1999, Marion A. Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  • Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC
  • Over the course of the season, on 15 occasions the team had rescued a draw or better after falling behind, such that even against Juventus, there was an air of inevitability about the comeback.2013, Daniel Harris, The Promised Land: Manchester United's Historic Treble, Birlinn, →ISBN

verbTo salvage and restore something that has been discarded.

  • I rescued a set of antique dining chairs.
  • She had rescued a sofa once, had managed to locate the dealer who had bought it from under her nose while she perused a junk shop, and offered to buy it from him.2016 May 26, Jojo Moyes, Foreign Fruit: 'Blissful, romantic reading' - Company, Hachette UK, →ISBN

verbTo fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.

  • The cook rescued the sauce after it began to curdle.
  • To rescue whipped cream that has been overwhipped and appears grainy, add a little more liquid cream and whip it briefly or until very smooth and soft.2019 November 12, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, John Becker, Megan Scott, Joy of Cooking: Fully Revised and...

verbTo adopt (an animal).

  • We rescued a dog, Dylan, which would begin my lifelong love of animals, especially dogs.2018 July 31, Olivia Hussey, The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet, Kensington Books, →ISBN

nounAn act or episode of rescuing, saving.

  • Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues.2023 May 5, Declan Walsh, “‘Only Word for Them Is Heroes’: How 2 Students Rescued Dozens in Sudan”, in The New York Times

More sentences with rescue

  • Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.From the entry cost
  • The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.From the entry gleam
  • Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.From the entry stifle
  • The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.From the entry suppress
  • As they were being decoyed, the rescue team carried the hostage and quietly slipped away.From the entry decoy
  • We rationed ourselves to three sips of water a day until we were rescued.From the entry ration
  • The missionary was motivated by a sincere desire to rescue souls from eternal torment in the netherworld.From the entry netherworld
  • The entrapment of the victims in the wreckage made rescue difficult.From the entry entrapment
  • The lost mountaineer was easily rescued because his phone transmitted his geocoordinates to the emergency services.From the entry geocoordinate
  • We have geolocated the missing ship, so we can now send rescue personnel.From the entry geolocate
  • The team came to the rescue of a whale in need.From the entry in need
  • We were so glad to rescue Jezebel from the shelter and bring her to her forever home.From the entry forever home
  • He got in trouble and so I grabbed a rescue board, paddled out and grabbed him.From the entry rescue board
  • I tracked her with my eyes until she bobbed under before the rescue boat got there.From the entry bob under
  • She looked at the Heavenward beam of light emitting from the rescue beacon.From the entry heavenward
  • There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.From the entry remote
  • I learned a new magic after rescuing the tree fairy.From the entry magic
  • Rescuing animals is an appropriate thing to do.From the entry appropriate
  • Give me your coordinates and we'll come and rescue you.From the entry coordinate
  • I misworded my offer: I meant help, not rescue.From the entry misword
  • The elderly woman was rescued off the floor after a young paramedic managed to kick her door down.From the entry kick down
  • Newly rescued from the desert, she faintingly asked for water.From the entry faintingly
  • Rescues in IDLH conditions can be extremely hazardous.From the entry IDLH
  • Congratulations to Ashley, who once again proved that she is a rockstar by rescuing a key account from the threat of nonrenewal.From the entry rockstar
  • Baby birds are known for a propensity to imprint; they tend to imprint on whichever creatures they perceive to be their parents — including humans doing wildlife rescue!From the entry imprint
  • The rescue swimmer was Coast Guard third petty officer Evan Grills.2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian. From the entry petty officer

Meaning of rescue

  1. verb To save from any violence, danger or evil.
  2. verb To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
  3. verb To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.

Full definition of rescue

Questions about rescue in a sentence

How do you use rescue in a sentence?
Rescue is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.”
What is a short sentence with rescue?
“to rescue a prisoner from the enemy”
What does rescue mean?
Rescue means to save from any violence, danger or evil.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rescue (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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