How to Use gurney in a Sentence

gurney

noun
  • Each was told to stand next to a piece of tape by the gurney.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The body on the gurney had seemed miniature, doll-like.
    Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • The child was seated on a gurney outside of a spa, the footage shows.
    Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023
  • On the gurney, blood ran from her nose and covered half of her face.
    Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The man is one a gurney and appears to have a broken arm.
    Chron, 4 May 2022
  • By the time the paramedics arrived, the girl was up and about, able to settle herself on the gurney.
    Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Off the field on the first base side, a medical gurney.
    Calvin Woodward, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2017
  • The condemned man was strapped to a gurney of white sheets and black restraints.
    New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Her body, still in the box on the gurney, lay directly in front of the retort.
    Maggie Jones, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The police and paramedics arrived and took Mr. Mitchel away on a gurney.
    Michael Wilson, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The beds are bare-bones, just a gurney and a bedside table.
    Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2018
  • Bourgeois was strapped to a gurney in the middle of a green-tiled room, an IV in his arm.
    Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The video also shows that Suarez wasn’t calm on the gurney, Pena said.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022
  • The cuffs are later removed and Prude is placed on a gurney.
    Melanie Schuman and Kelly McCleary, CNN, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The station obtained video that appeared to show the boy on a gurney.
    NBC News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Bills staff ran onto the field and Harris was strapped to a gurney or flat board.
    Jolie Lash, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Deschamps-Braly stood next to Abby on the gurney, and stroked her arm.
    Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
  • My husband tailed us as 27-pound Leo, strapped to an adult-size gurney, screamed the whole way there.
    Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Davis, a Catholic deacon from Burbank, plans to walk with Berget from death row to the gurney.
    Dave Kolpack, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
  • The scene about the man there alone on the gurney with the single tear running down his face has never left me.
    Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • The torso on the gurney was being prepared for just such a sale.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The latter showed the actress on a gurney with an IV in her arm, a neck brace and a knee brace on her left leg.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
  • An ambulance drove up, and the man was strapped to a gurney and taken away.
    John Ismay Kenny Holston, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • There are rollers on the gurney and sometimes on the floor of the cremation unit so the casket can slide with ease.
    Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Cadigan was waiting just off the front porch with a gurney.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Their big brother, Aza, rode on the gurney with them, with mom and dad close behind.
    Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 17 Oct. 2016
  • There’s the author, the actress Sharon Stone, lying on a gurney.
    Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The witness, Gary Mills, said responders put the man on a gurney.
    miamiherald, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Lying on a gurney in the trauma bay, a chest tube draining blood from his side, Reagan sought to calm down his wife, Nancy, with a quip.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 July 2024
  • Placing the suspect on an ambulance gurney, cops and medics had to fight their way through the irate mob while carrying Irish, who was being mocked and jeered.
    Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 13 July 2024

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