RESCUE in a Sentence

Learn RESCUE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

121 example sentences for RESCUE, such as:

1. I won't need you to rescue me.
2. Our rescue was the deed of Providence.
3. The bank rescued the company from bankruptcy.
4. Carol waited till Kennicott should rescue her.
5. Another man was rescued as he clung to the riverbank.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESCUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rescue
 v.  free someone from harm or evil; take from legal custody by force
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  And perhaps, I'm staying here to rescue you when the siege does come.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  I won't need you to rescue me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  He responded joyfully that to do so was his mission in life, and asked what form the rescue was to take.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
4  The episode of Nettie Crane's timely rescue from disease had been one of the most satisfying incidents of her connection with Gerty's charitable work.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  Carol waited till Kennicott should rescue her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  The next, a loud splash announced that my brave Queequeg had dived to the rescue.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
7  As he sullenly swam off, the boats flew to the rescue.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
8  More than once they put their wits together to rescue some unfortunate farmer from the clutches of Wick Cutter, the Black Hawk money-lender.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
9  The first generous impulse of Duncan was to rush to the rescue of the hapless wretch; but he felt himself bound to the spot by the iron grasp of the immovable scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
10  Her hands were clasped before her in prayer, but instead of looking upward toward that power which alone could rescue them, her unconscious looks wandered to the countenance of Duncan with infantile dependency.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
11  Our rescue was the deed of Providence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
12  Their common superior, so far from encouraging them to resist, advised a speedy surrender, urging in the plainest language, as a reason, the utter impossibility of his sending a single man to their rescue.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
13  I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
14  He had considered the time, he said, to be one in which it was the duty of every little piece to rescue itself if possible.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  A key is thrown in, which unlocks the door, and in a spasm of rapture he tears off his chains and rushes away to find and rescue his lady love.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
16  In order to rescue Han Solo, Princess Leia decided to camouflage herself in the helmet and cloak of a space bandit.
17  Repeated attempts to rescue him failed because of snow storms and avalanches but on Wednesday two Pakistani military helicopters managed to fly close enough to his perch for one of them to dangle a line to him.
18  The global community has joined together in rejoicing at the rescue of 33 Chilean miners.
19  They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone.
20  About a fortnight after Tom's rescue from the cave, he started off to visit Huck, who had grown plenty strong enough, now, to hear exciting talk, and Tom had some that would interest him, he thought.
21  The movie Ransom describes the attempts to rescue a multimillionaire's son after the child's abduction by kidnappers.
22  China joined the world in breathless coverage of the Chilean mine rescue, but when a gas blast killed 21 Chinese miners, the national TV news didn't say a word.
23  Student-built robotic hovercraft will simulate Arctic rescue and service missions in a year-end engineering challenge tomorrow.
24  The audio clip of the exchange between the control tower and pilot of the doomed flight was confirmed by Taiwan's Civil Aeronautical Administration as rescue workers continued searching for 11 missing passengers Thursday.
25  The whales' predicament in the frigid waters of Hudson Bay made international headlines, and locals had been planning a rescue operation with chainsaws and drills before the mammals slipped away.
26  In Washington, protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to denounce what they described as a poor response by the Nigerian government to rescue the girls.
27  Another man was rescued as he clung to the riverbank.
28  The bank rescued the company from bankruptcy.
29  Her horse was a show jumper whom the family rescued from the knacker's yard.
30  The police broke up the window nailed down and rescued the boy from the fire.