gurney

noun

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gur·ney | \ ˈgər-nē

plural gurneys

Definition of gurney

: a wheeled cot or stretcher

Examples of gurney in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Images posted on Twitter showed one person on a gurney and a student jumping onto white cloth that apparently had been used as a banner. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2021 The area could only be accessed by walking through a holding cell that wasn’t large enough for a gurney to pass through. — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2021 Video obtained by the station shows first responders wheeling the suspect away on a gurney for treatment at a hospital. — Fox News, 16 Aug. 2021 Oklahoma once had one of the busiest death chambers in the nation, but executions were put on hold following a botched lethal injection in 2014 that left an inmate writhing on the gurney and drug mix-ups in 2015. — From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021 By midnight, Spears was photographed being taken away from the house on a gurney to Cedars-Sinai hospital for observation. — Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 23 June 2021 Karl rolled a metal gurney onto the seventh floor to transport one of the bodies to the morgue. — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021 Photos of her on a hospital gurney made the tabloid rounds. — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2021 He is then loaded onto an ambulance gurney, his arm cuffed to the bedrail. — CBS News, 19 May 2021

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