Examples of gurney in a Sentence
Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
During the execution, officials said Smith will be strapped to a gurney chamber and forced to breathe nitrogen through a gas mask until his body is depleted entirely of oxygen and shuts down.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
Meanwhile, inside the ER, a frustrated father vented while an unconscious relative lay on a gurney and two children stared silently at the reporters.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2024
Only a small group of witnesses actually watched Kenneth Smith die on a gurney in an execution chamber in rural Alabama, an execution that state officials described as a model for other states looking for alternatives to lethal injection.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
On a gurney, a brain-dead patient lay connected to a whirring Rube Goldberg-esque machine: a tangle of tubes and siphons on wheels.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
North was ultimately handcuffed to a gurney and booked for gross misdemeanor battery and released on bail, TMZ reports.
—Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
According to witnesses, the inmate who was put to death did not become unconscious as quickly as expected and thrashed on the gurney.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2024
The protocol in Alabama called for Smith to be strapped to a gurney and fitted with a mask and a breathing tube.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
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Word History
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
1939, in the meaning defined above
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“Gurney.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gurney. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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