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Meanwhile, a clergy member was at the foot of the gurney beside him.—Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026 The paramedics were unable to bring the gurney to him due to the layout of the house, according to police.—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026 Figueroa showed no emotion, watching through a glass window just steps from where Ricks had been strapped to a gurney.—Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026 After his seventy-mile journey Patrick, lying in his incubator, was lifted out of the ambulance, placed onto a gurney, and wheeled through the lobby to the elevator.—Steven Levingston, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gurney
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Etymology
probably ultimately from Gurney cab type of horse-drawn cab with a rear entrance, from J. Theodore Gurney, who patented such a cab in Boston in 1883