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The Evanston Fire Department responded and moved Williams onto a gurney, police said.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
1 July 2026 The driver opened the back door and pulled out a gurney.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
27 June 2026 She is laid out on a gurney, breathing in and out as the nurse flicks the needle, shooting oxytocin, prostaglandins into her blood-stream.—Literary Hub,
25 June 2026 About 14 minutes after officers handcuffed Martin, officers could be seen carrying Martin out of the house, because, police said, the paramedics’ gurney could not make it inside the home.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for gurney
Word History
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