Sentences with rescue
res·cue
R r - Helicopters rescued nearly 20 people from the roof of the burning building. [VERB noun]
- Lights clipped onto life jackets improve the chances of rescue.
- Rescue implies prompt action in freeing someone or something from imminent danger or destruction or in releasing someone from captivity [the lifeguard rescued the drowning child]; deliver implies a setting free from confinement or from some restricting situation [deliver me from those interminable sermons]; redeem suggests a freeing from bondage or from the consequences of sin, or a reclaiming, as from pawn, deterioration, etc. [how can I redeem my good name?]; ransom specifically implies the payment of what is demanded in order to free one held captive; , save1, in this connection, is a general, comprehensive synonym for any of the preceding terms
- A major air-sea rescue is under way.
- A rescue party
- A rescue dog.